A new author’s productivity index: p-index

Abstract

In this paper a new author's productivity index is introduced, namely the golden productivity index. The proposed index measures the productivity of an individual researcher evaluating the number of papers as well as the rank of co-authorship. It provides an efficient method to measure the author's contribution in articles writing, compared to other ordinary methods. It gives emphasis to the first authors contributions due to the fact that traditionally the rank of each author shows the magnitude of his contribution in the article.

Comprehensive Researcher Achievement Model (CRAM): a framework for measuring researcher achievement, impact and influence derived from a systematic literature review of metrics and models

“…Metrics based on PageRank purported to measure both the direct and indirect impacts of a publication or researcher. Other approaches considered the relative contributions of authors to a paper in calculating productivity 117. Numerous metrics and models that built on existing approaches were also reported 118.…”

The value and credits of n-authors publications

“…These include the arithmetic counting method (Van Hooydonk, 1997), in which credits are linearly distributed in decreasing order among the authors, the geometric counting method (Egghe et al, 2000), in which each author always gets twice the credits of the following author, the harmonic counting method (Hagen, 2008;Sekercioglu, 2008), in which the i-th ranked author receives 1{i of the credit received by the first author, and the axiomatic counting method (Stallings et al, 2013), which is conceptually the most similar to that proposed in the present paper. Other counting methods and procedures have been proposed (Abramo et al, 2013;Assimakis and Adam, 2010;Kim and Diesner, 2014;Liu and Fang, 2012;Lukovits and Vinkler, 1995;Trueba and Guerrero, 2004). All these methods are based on some intuitively correct argument, which makes it difficult to compare them or to claim that one method is superior to the others (Kim and Kim, 2015;Xu et al, 2016).…”

Distributions of citations of papers of individual authors publishing in different scientific disciplines: Application of Langmuir-type function

“…The above measures in reality penalize authors who publish alone in comparison with others publishing with a large number of coauthors, juniors or seniors. In view of frequently unknown contributions of different authors in multiauthored papers devising of a fair method of counting of contributions of individual authors in multiauthored papers has drawn considerable attention for over three decades (for example, see: Assimakis & Adam, 2010;Batista, Campiteli, Kinouchi & Martinez, 2006;Hodge & Greenberg, 1981;Pereira de Araújo, 2008;Price, 1981;Tol, 2011;Vinkler, 1993).…”