How To Count Citations If You Must

Motty Perry and Philip Reny ()

No 270001, Economic Research Papers from University of Warwick - Department of Economics

Abstract: Citation indices are regularly used to inform critical decisions about promotion, tenure, and the allocation of billions of research dollars. Nevertheless, most indices (e.g., the h-index) are motivated by intuition and rules of thumb, resulting in undesirable conclusions. In contrast, five natural properties lead us to a unique new index, the Euclidean index, that avoids several shortcomings of the h-index and its successors. The Euclidean index is simply the Euclidean length of an individual’s citation list. Two empirical tests suggest that the Euclidean index outperforms the h-index in practice.

Keywords: Financial; Economics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 21
Date: 2015-12-12
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.270001

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