Title
Statistics for Ranking Program Committees and Editorial Boards
Abstract
Ranking groups of researchers is important in several contexts and can serve many purposes such as the fair distribution of grants based on the scientist's publication output, concession of research projects, classification of journal editorial boards and many other applications in a social context. In this paper, we propose a method for measuring the performance of groups of researchers. The proposed method is called alpha-index and it is based on two parameters: (i) the homogeneity of the h-indexes of the researchers in the group; and (ii) the h-group, which is an extension of the h-index for groups. Our method integrates the concepts of homogeneity and absolute value of the h-index into a single measure which is appropriate for the evaluation of groups. We report on experiments that assess computer science conferences based on the h-indexes of their program committee members. Our results are similar to a manual classification scheme adopted by a research agency.
Year
Venue
Keywords
2010
Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research
social context,information retrieval,indexation,information theory
Field
DocType
Volume
Social environment,Mathematical optimization,Homogeneity (statistics),Information retrieval,Ranking,Computer science,Classification scheme,Operations research
Journal
abs/1002.1
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
4
0.48
2
Authors
4