W-Index: A Weighted Index for Evaluating Research Impact

• 作者: Xindong Wu
• 来源期刊: 应用科学(英文)
• 学科: 文学
• 关键词: Research Impact Bibliometric Measures CITATIONS PUBLICATIONS Author Rank
• 年，卷（期）: 2021,（1）
• 页码范围: 149-156
• 页数: 8页
• 分类号: H31

摘要

Academic evaluations such as tenure/promotion applications and society fellowship nominations rely heavily on bibliometric measures of each candidate’s research impact, including their research citations. This article first reviews existing evaluation criteria such as the h-index and<em> q</em>-most-citations, and then proposes a weighted w-index which minimizes shortcomings in existing single-number measures. The w-index consists of three factors<span style="white-space:nowrap;">&#8212;</span>3 most cited first-author publications, 3 most cited publications as the corresponding/last author, and 3 additional most cited publications as a co-author, but does not allow double counting of these publications.