Paper Info
Title
On the calculation of percentile-based bibliometric indicators
Abstract
percentile-based bibliometric indicator is an indicator that values publications based on their position within the citation distribution of their field. The most straightforward percentile-based indicator is the proportion of frequently cited publications, for instance, the proportion of publications that belong to the top 10% most frequently cited of their field. Recently, more complex percentile-based indicators have been proposed. A difficulty in the calculation of percentile-based indicators is caused by the discrete nature of citation distributions combined with the presence of many publications with the same number of citations. We introduce an approach to calculating percentile-based indicators that deals with this difficulty in a more satisfactory way than earlier approaches suggested in the literature. We show in a formal mathematical framework that our approach leads to indicators that do not suffer from biases in favor of or against particular fields of science.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1002/asi.22775
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Keywords
DocType
Volume
citation analysis
Journal
64
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
2
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 64 (2013) 372-379
53
PageRank 
References 
Authors
1.98
12
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ludo Waltman12236105.47
Michael Schreiber225825.42