Certainty equivalent citation: a generalized class of citation indexes

Antonio Abatemarco and Roberto Dell'Anno

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Abstract: Citation indexes have attracted the interest of many researchers in the recent years. In this paper we propose a new class of citation indexes which is shown to generalize most of the citation indexes in the existing literature (h-, g-, f-, t-index). The class of indexes is obtained borrowing from the notion of ``certainty equivalent income'' or ``equally distributed equivalent income'' which has been largely implemented in the field of risk and inequality measurement. As a result citation orderings are shown to depend on a parameter of concentration/dispersion aversion capturing the value judgments of the decision-maker with respect to the distribution of citations. In order to verify the sensitivity of scientific productivity orderings with respect to concentration/dispersion aversion, an empirical application to a representative sample of Italian academic economists is presented.

Keywords: citation index; h-index; research assessment; scientific impact measures (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A29 D63 H52 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011-07-28
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