On Measuring Scientific Influence / Wagstaff, Adam
Mitwirkende(r): Resource type: Ressourcentyp: Buch (Online)Buch (Online)Sprache: Englisch Verlag: Washington, D.C : The World Bank, 2010Beschreibung: Online-Ressource (22 p)Andere physische Formen: Wagstaff, Adam: On Measuring Scientific Influence DOI: DOI: 10.1596/1813-9450-5375Online-Ressourcen: Zusammenfassung: 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 BankPPN: PPN: 834967596Package identifier: Produktsigel: ZDB-1-WBA | ZDB-110-WBLDieser Titel hat keine Exemplare
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