A new methodology for ranking scientific institutions

@article{citeulike:2468521, abstract = {Abstract\ \ We extend the pioneering work of J. E. Hirsch, the inventor of the h-index, by proposing a simple and seemingly robust approach for comparing the scientific productivity and visibility of institutions. Our main findings are that i) while the h-index is a sensible criterion for comparing scientists within a given field, it does not directly extend to rank institutions of disparate sizes and journals, ii) however, the h-index, which always increases with paper population, has an universal growth rate for large numbers of papers; iii) thus the h-index of a large population of papers can be decomposed into the product of an impact index and a factor depending on the population size, iv) as a complement to the h-index, this new impact index provides an interesting way to compare the scientific production of institutions (universities, laboratories or journals).}, author = {Molinari, Jean-Francois and Molinari, Alain }, citeulike-article-id = {2468521}, doi = {10.1007/s11192-007-1853-2}, journal = {Scientometrics}, keywords = {bibliometrics, ranking}, posted-at = {2008-03-05 01:26:27}, priority = {2}, title = {A new methodology for ranking scientific institutions}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11192-007-1853-2} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:2468521 L3 - citeulike-article-id:2468521 TI - A new methodology for ranking scientific institutions JF - Scientometrics N2 - Abstract  We extend the pioneering work of J. E. Hirsch, the inventor of the h-index, by proposing a simple and seemingly robust approach for comparing the scientific productivity and visibility of institutions. Our main findings are that i) while the h-index is a sensible criterion for comparing scientists within a given field, it does not directly extend to rank institutions of disparate sizes and journals, ii) however, the h-index, which always increases with paper population, has an universal growth rate for large numbers of papers; iii) thus the h-index of a large population of papers can be decomposed into the product of an impact index and a factor depending on the population size, iv) as a complement to the h-index, this new impact index provides an interesting way to compare the scientific production of institutions (universities, laboratories or journals). KW - bibliometrics KW - ranking AU - Molinari, Jean-Francois AU - Molinari, Alain UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11192-007-1853-2 ER -