X-centage: a Hirsch-inspired indicator for distributions of percentage-valued variables and its use for measuring heterodisciplinarity

András Schubert ()
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András Schubert: Library and Information Center of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences

Scientometrics, 2015, vol. 102, issue 1, No 17, 307-313

Abstract: Abstract The present paper introduces two independent concepts. X-centage is a statistical indicator characterizing distributions of percentage-valued variables in a vein similar to Hirsch’s h-index. Heterodisciplinarity is a measure of polydisciplinarity using the disciplinary categorization of references and/or citations. The Journal Citation Reports database is used for an empirical study of using the X-centage for measuring reference heterodisciplinarity of science fields.

Keywords: X-centage; h-type indices; Multidisciplinarity; Heterodisciplinarity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1007/s11192-014-1281-z

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