Paper Info
Title
An Integrated Impact Indicator (I3): A New Definition of "Impact" with Policy Relevance
Abstract
Allocation of research funding, as well as promotion and tenure decisions, are increasingly made using indicators and impact factors drawn from citations to published work. A debate among scientometricians about proper normalization of citation counts has resolved with the creation of an Integrated Impact Indicator (I3) that solves a number of problems found among previously used indicators. The I3 applies non-parametric statistics using percentiles, allowing highly-cited papers to be weighted more than less-cited ones. It further allows unbundling of venues (i.e., journals or databases) at the article level. Measures at the article level can be re-aggregated in terms of units of evaluation. At the venue level, the I3 creates a properly weighted alternative to the journal impact factor. I3 has the added advantage of enabling and quantifying classifications such as the six percentile rank classes used by the National Science Board's Science & Engineering Indicators.
Year
Venue
Field
2012
Research Evaluation
Normalization (statistics),Actuarial science,Public relations,Computer science,Citation,Unbundling,Percentile rank,Marketing,Percentile,Impact factor
DocType
Volume
Citations 
Journal
abs/1205.1419
7
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.46
17
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Caroline S. Wagner140926.07
Loet Leydesdorff24987381.86