On Measuring Scientific Influence

Ravallion, Martin ; Wagstaff, Adam

关键词: ARTICLE;    ARTICLES;    BELIEFS;    BIBLIOGRAPHIC DATA;    BIBLIOGRAPHIC DATABASES;   

DOI  :  10.1596/1813-9450-5375
RP-ID  :  WPS5375

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: World Bank Open Knowledge Repository

【 摘 要 】

Bibliometric measures based on citationsare widely used in assessing the scientific publicationrecords of authors, institutions and journals. Yet currentlyfavored measures lack a clear conceptual foundation and areknown to have counter-intuitive properties. The authorspropose a new approach that is grounded on a theoretical"influence function," representing explicit priorbeliefs about how citations reflect influence. They provideconditions for robust qualitative comparisons of influence-- conditions that can be implemented usingreadily-available data. An example is provided using theeconomics publication records of selected universities andthe World Bank.