Title
Gazing at the skyline for star scientists.
Abstract
Admittedly, despite the plethora of scientometric indices proposed to rank scientists, none of them can fully capture the performance and impact of a scientist, since each index quantifies only one or a few aspects of his/her multifarious performance. Therefore, the task of scientometric ranking can be seen as a multi-dimensional ranking problem, where the different indices comprise the dimensions. The application of the skyline operator comes then as a natural solution to the problem. In this article we apply the skyline operator to scientist ranking to identify those scientists whose performance cannot be surpassed by others’ with respect to all attributes. This technique can be used as a tool for short-listing distinguished researchers in case of award nomination.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1016/j.joi.2016.04.009
Journal of Informetrics
Keywords
Field
DocType
Skyline operator,Perfectionism index,Hirsch index,Scientometrics
Data science,Skyline,Data mining,Nomination,Ranking,Computer science,Operator (computer programming),Scientometrics
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
10
3
1751-1577
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
5
0.43
35
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Antonis Sidiropoulos138027.27
Antonia Gogoglou252.12
Dimitrios Katsaros3104868.66
Yannis Manolopoulos44494534.37