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Star X. Zhao ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Information Science, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, CN

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Star X. Zhao ¹, Jiang Li ²

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1 Department of Information Science, School of Business, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, China and Institute of Scientific and Technical Information of China (ISTIC), Beijing 100038, CN
2 Department of Information Resource Management, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, IN

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Bingjia Shao ¹, Feng Xiao ¹, Star X. Zhao ²

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1 School of Economics and Business Administration, Chongqing University, Chongqing 400030, CN
2 Department of Information Management, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, CN

Abstract

The aim of this study is to find whether the h-index and Schubert-Glänzel model which was originally used in bibliometrics can work in the broader social and information systems, such as e-commerce. This study introduces the popularity index (h_P) to profile on-line sellers and products and tests the accuracy of the Schubert-Glänzel model of the h_P index using the Levenberg-Marquardt algorithm. The h_P index was tested on Taobao, a leading Chinese e-commerce marketplace. About 300 products on Taobao were randomly selected from 10 categories of the most popular on-line products as samples for this study. It was found that h_P is consistent with the Schubert-Glänzel model the h-index. This shows that the existing theoretical bibliometric model which was originally used in the scientific literature, could be helpful in the broader social or information systems.

Keywords

Bibliometric Measures, E-Commerce, h-Index, Popularity Index.

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Star X. Zhao ¹, Lili Qiao ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Information Management, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, CN

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Research output plays a key role in the current evaluation of universities and is often measured by the number of research papers or their impacts (citations). Many popular university rankings include core indicators of papers and citations, e.g., Times Higher Education Supplement, United States News and World Report, QS World University ranks, CWTS Leiden Ranking and Academic Ranking of World Universities of Shanghai Jiaotong University.

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