On measuring scientific influence
Martin Ravallion and
Adam Wagstaff
No 5375, Policy Research Working Paper Series from The World Bank
Abstract:
Bibliometric measures based on citations are widely used in assessing the scientific publication records of authors, institutions and journals. Yet currently favored measures lack a clear conceptual foundation and are known to have counter-intuitive properties. The authors propose a new approach that is grounded on a theoretical"influence function,"representing explicit prior beliefs about how citations reflect influence. They provide conditions for robust qualitative comparisons of influence -- conditions that can be implemented using readily-available data. An example is provided using the economics publication records of selected universities and the World Bank.
Keywords: Information Security&Privacy; Economic Theory&Research; Information and Records Management; Tertiary Education; Knowledge for Development (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010-07-01
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