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Publication Performance without Calculations:An Analysis based on the p-Index


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1 Instituto Universitario de Lisboa (ISCTE-IUL), ISCTE Business School Economics Department, BRU-IUL (Business Research Unit), Lisboa, Portugal
 

Bibliometric analysis is increasingly being used for key decisions in science and higher education. Regarding author-level performance evaluation, the p-index is a well-established measure. In this study, we propose the p′-index, which introduces a small adjustment in the p-index. Based on this transformation, we are able to build an index that is almost perfectly correlated with the p-index, but does not imply any form of calculations. The score of each researcher is presented in a table as on-line appendix. Only the total number of papers and citations are needed to obtain the final performance score. We discuss the application of this measure with a sample of economists belonging to the top 10 world universities.

Keywords

Citations, Economists, h-index, p-index, Publication Performance.
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Authors

Nadia Simoes
Instituto Universitario de Lisboa (ISCTE-IUL), ISCTE Business School Economics Department, BRU-IUL (Business Research Unit), Lisboa, Portugal
Nuno Crespo
Instituto Universitario de Lisboa (ISCTE-IUL), ISCTE Business School Economics Department, BRU-IUL (Business Research Unit), Lisboa, Portugal

Abstract


Bibliometric analysis is increasingly being used for key decisions in science and higher education. Regarding author-level performance evaluation, the p-index is a well-established measure. In this study, we propose the p′-index, which introduces a small adjustment in the p-index. Based on this transformation, we are able to build an index that is almost perfectly correlated with the p-index, but does not imply any form of calculations. The score of each researcher is presented in a table as on-line appendix. Only the total number of papers and citations are needed to obtain the final performance score. We discuss the application of this measure with a sample of economists belonging to the top 10 world universities.

Keywords


Citations, Economists, h-index, p-index, Publication Performance.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.18520/cs%2Fv117%2Fi11%2F1872-1874