Ranking authors using fractional counting of citations: An axiomatic approach

Denis Bouyssou and Thierry Marchant

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Abstract: This paper analyzes from an axiomatic point of view a recent proposal for counting citations: the value of a citation given by a paper is inversely proportional to the total number of papers it cites. This way of fractionally counting citations was suggested as a possible way to normalize citation counts between fields of research having different citation cultures. It belongs to the "citing-side" approach to normalization. We focus on the properties characterizing this way of counting citations when it comes to ranking authors. Our analysis is conducted within a formal framework that is more complex but also more realistic than the one usually adopted in most axiomatic analyses of this kind.

Keywords: Rangement; Normalisation; Bibliométrie; Bibliometric ranking of authors; Field normalization; Fractional counting of citations; Axiomatization (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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Published in Journal of Informetrics, 2016, 10 (1), ⟨10.1016/j.joi.2015.12.006⟩

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DOI: 10.1016/j.joi.2015.12.006

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