Measuring Influence in Science: Standing on the Shoulders of Which Giants?

Antonin Macé

No 1743, AMSE Working Papers from Aix-Marseille School of Economics, France

Abstract: I study the measurement of the influence of scientists based on bibliographic data. I propose a new measure that accounts for indirect influence and allows to compare scientists across different fields of science. By contrast, common measures of influence that “count citations”, such as the h-index, are unable to satisfy either of these two properties. I use the axiomatic method in two opposite ways: to highlight the two limitations of citation- counting schemes and their independence, and to carefully justify the assumptions made in the construction of the proposed measure.

Keywords: intellectual influence; networks; comparability across fields; axiomatic method (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A11 A12 C43 D85 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 31 pages
Date: 2017-11
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