Paper Info
Title
Ranking and identifying influential scientists versus mass producers by the Perfectionism Index
Abstract
The concept of h-index has been proposed to easily assess a researcher's performance with a single number. However, by using only this number, we lose significant information about the distribution of citations per article in an author's publication list. In this article, we study an author's citation curve and we define two new areas related to this curve. We call these "penalty areas", since the greater they are, the more an author's performance is penalized. We exploit these areas to establish new indices, namely Perfectionism Index and eXtreme Perfectionism Index (XPI), aiming at categorizing researchers in two distinct categories: "influentials" and "mass producers"; the former category produces articles which are (almost all) with high impact, and the latter category produces a lot of articles with moderate or no impact at all. Using data from Microsoft Academic Service, we evaluate the merits mainly of PI as a useful tool for scientometric studies. We establish its effectiveness into separating the scientists into influentials and mass producers; we demonstrate its robustness against self-citations, and its uncorrelation to traditional indices. Finally, we apply PI to rank prominent scientists in the areas of databases, networks and multimedia, exhibiting the strength of the index in fulfilling its design goal.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1007/s11192-014-1515-0
Scientometrics
Keywords
Field
DocType
Ranking,h-Index,Citation analysis,Bibliometrics
Data science,Data mining,Ranking,Computer science,Citation,Citation analysis,Robustness (computer science),Exploit,Bibliometrics,Information and Computer Science
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
103
1
0138-9130
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
6
0.50
21
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Antonis Sidiropoulos138027.27
Dimitrios Katsaros2104868.66
Yannis Manolopoulos34494534.37