A Simple Impact Measure and Its Evolution over Time

Ronald Rousseau; Fred Y. Ye

doi:10.6182/jlis.2011.9(2).001

Journal of Library and Information Studies (Dec 2011)

A Simple Impact Measure and Its Evolution over Time

Ronald Rousseau,
Fred Y. Ye

Affiliations

Ronald Rousseau: KHBO (Association K.U.Leuven), Faculty of EngineeringTechnology, Zeedijk 101, B-8400 Oostende, Belgium ; K.U.Leuven, Dept. Mathematics, Celestijnenlaan 200B, B-3000 Leuven (Heverlee), Belgium ; Universiteit Antwerpen, IBW, Venusstraat 35, B-2000 Antwerpen, Belgium
Fred Y. Ye: Dept. Information Resources Management, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027 China ; Institute of Scientific and Technical Information of China, Beijing 100038 China

DOI: https://doi.org/10.6182/jlis.2011.9(2).001
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 9, no. 2
pp. 1 – 10

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We propose a simple informetric measure, called the D-measure, for research performance. This index provides a new approach to combine publications and citations. It is related to Kosmulski's index for successful papers. We provide an attractive visualization of the evolution of these indices as trajectories in the plane.

Published in Journal of Library and Information Studies

ISSN: 1606-7509 (Print)
Publisher: National Taiwan University
Country of publisher: Taiwan, Province of China
LCC subjects: Bibliography. Library science. Information resources
Website: http://jlis.lis.ntu.edu.tw/

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