• Title of article

    Inconsistencies in the highly cited publications indicator

  • Author/Authors

    Michael Schreiber ، نويسنده ,

  • Issue Information
    ماهنامه با شماره پیاپی سال 2013
  • Pages
    5
  • From page
    1298
  • To page
    1302
  • Abstract
    One way of evaluating individual scientists is the determination of the number of highly cited publications, where the threshold is given by a large reference set. It is shown that this indicator behaves in a counterintuitive way, leading to inconsistencies in the ranking of different scientists.
  • Keywords
    Bibliometrics
  • Journal title
    Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
  • Serial Year
    2013
  • Journal title
    Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
  • Record number

    994884