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On Measuring Scientific Influence / Wagstaff, Adam
World Bank Open Knowledge Repository (formerly "World Bank E-Library Publications") Available online
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- Book
- Government document
- Author/Creator:
- Wagstaff, Adam
- Series:
- Policy research working papers.
- World Bank e-Library.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Article.
- Articles.
- Bibliographic data.
- Bibliographic databases.
- Citation.
- Citation index.
- Citations.
- Disclosure.
- Economic Theory & Research.
- Education.
- Entry.
- Indices.
- Information and Communication Technologies.
- Information and Records Management.
- Information Security & Privacy.
- Knowledge for Development.
- Macroeconomics and Economic Growth.
- Objects.
- Ordering.
- Orderings.
- Publishing.
- Researcher.
- Researchers.
- Social science.
- Social sciences.
- Standardization.
- Tertiary Education.
- Web.
- Local Subjects:
- Article.
- Articles.
- Bibliographic data.
- Bibliographic databases.
- Citation.
- Citation index.
- Citations.
- Disclosure.
- Economic Theory & Research.
- Education.
- Entry.
- Indices.
- Information and Communication Technologies.
- Information and Records Management.
- Information Security & Privacy.
- Knowledge for Development.
- Macroeconomics and Economic Growth.
- Objects.
- Ordering.
- Orderings.
- Publishing.
- Researcher.
- Researchers.
- Social science.
- Social sciences.
- Standardization.
- Tertiary Education.
- Web.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (22 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C., The World Bank, 2010
- System Details:
- data file
- Summary:
- Bibliometric measures based on citations are widely used in assessing the scientific publication records of authors, institutions and journals. Yet currently favored measures lack a clear conceptual foundation and are known to have counter-intuitive properties. The authors propose a new approach that is grounded on a theoretical "influence function," representing explicit prior beliefs about how citations reflect influence. They provide conditions for robust qualitative comparisons of influence - conditions that can be implemented using readily-available data. An example is provided using the economics publication records of selected universities and the World Bank.
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