Measurable utility for scientific influence

Albert Burgos
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UMUFAE Economics Working Papers from DIGITUM. Universidad de Murcia

Abstract: I give necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of a cardinal utility function to represent, through summation, rankings of scientific units based on their journal articles and its citations. I discuss and interpret the meaning of those conditions, its connections with inequality theory and the theory of choice under uncertainty, and I connect the results of this approach to other performance measures provided by the literature on citation analysis.

Keywords: Scientific rankings; citations; impact; additive utility; stochastic dominance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D12 R23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 18
Date: 2010-10
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