Normalizing the g-index

Lucio Bertoli-Barsotti ()
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Lucio Bertoli-Barsotti: University of Bergamo

Scientometrics, 2016, vol. 106, issue 2, No 9, 645-655

Abstract: Abstract Recently, a normalized version of the g-index has been proposed as an impact and concentration measure: the so-called s measure. The main problem with this measure is that—somewhat paradoxically—it may be that s = 1 even in the case in which citations are perfectly evenly spread across articles. We prove that the measure s can and should be improved by a different choice of a normalizing term. This is done by defining the latter as a function of the citation count of the single most cited paper. The new index presented here does not suffer from insensitivity to citation transfers within the g-core.

Keywords: Citation analysis; Lorenz ordering; Majorization; Egghe’s g-index (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1007/s11192-015-1794-0

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