Should citations be weighted to assess the influence of an academic article?
| Autor: | Abdelghani Maddi, Damien Besancenot |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Centre d'Economie de l'Université Paris Nord (CEPN), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (USPC)-Université Paris 13 (UP13), Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire de Recherche Appliquée en Economie de la Santé (LIRAES - EA 4470), Université Paris Descartes - Paris 5 (UPD5), Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (USPC), Université Paris 13 (UP13)-Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (USPC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Seppecher, Pascal |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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JEL: A - General Economics and Teaching/A.A1 - General Economics/A.A1.A14 - Sociology of Economics
Pagerank Citations weighting functions Eigenfactor Articles' ranking JEL: C - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods/C.C1 - Econometric and Statistical Methods and Methodology: General/C.C1.C18 - Methodological Issues: General [SHS.ECO] Humanities and Social Sciences/Economics and Finance [SHS.ECO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Economics and Finance JEL: C - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods/C.C4 - Econometric and Statistical Methods: Special Topics/C.C4.C43 - Index Numbers and Aggregation |
| Zdroj: | HAL |
| Popis: | Citations are by nature heterogeneous. A citation worth may dramatically vary according to the influence of the citing article or to the journal's reputation from which it is issued. Therefore, while assessing the influence of an academic article, how should we weight citations to take into account their real influence? In order to answer this question, this article suggests various methods of weighting citations in the building of articles quality indexes. These indexes are then used to measure the influence of the articles published in the top five economic journals over the 2000-2010 period and analyses the sensibility of these indexes to the choice of the weighting schemes. Our main result is that whatever the weighting scheme, information carried by the different indexes is not significantly different. From Occam's razor principle, the number of citations provides an efficient and sufficient tool to measure research quality. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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