domingo, 9 de maio de 2021

The best-performing indicator in terms of both correlation with scientific awards and predictive power

 


Still following the post above, about a paper by researchers from Norway and Denmark, which highlighted the shortcomings of the flawed Clarivate Analytics list of highly cited scientists, consider in the link below the findings presented in a recent paper by scientists from the USA and Germany, that analyzed millions of articles and hundreds of millions of citations, having found that  "a fractional analogue of the h-index outperforms other measures as a correlate and predictor of scientific awards".  https://arxiv.org/pdf/2102.03234.pdf