2014
DOI: 10.1007/s11192-014-1370-z
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Proof over promise: towards a more inclusive ranking of Dutch academics in Economics & Business

Abstract: The Dutch Economics top--40, based on publications in ISI listed journals, is --to the best of our knowledge --the oldest ranking of individual academics in Economics and is well accepted in the Dutch academic community. However, this ranking is based on publication volume, rather than on the actual impact of the publications in question. This paper therefore uses two relatively new metrics, the citations per author per year (CAY) metric and the individual annual h--index (hIa) to provide two alternative, cita… Show more

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“…The hIa provides an indication of the average number of impactful single-author equivalent publications an academic publishes per year. We expect its typical value to be well below 1.0 for most academics (Harzing & Mijnhardt, 2015).…”
Section: Definition Of Metricsmentioning
confidence: 90%
“…The hIa provides an indication of the average number of impactful single-author equivalent publications an academic publishes per year. We expect its typical value to be well below 1.0 for most academics (Harzing & Mijnhardt, 2015).…”
Section: Definition Of Metricsmentioning
confidence: 90%
“…For most academics the hIa will be below 1.0 as it is difficult to keep up a stream of high-impact publications over a sustained period of time. Based on two studies of high-performing academics Harzing & Mijnhardt (2015), suggest that a hIa above 1.0 should be considered to reflect excellent performance. A hIa above 1.5 might be considered to reflect outstanding performance, whereas a hIa above 2.0 can be seen as truly exceptional.…”
Section: Can I Compare Citation Levels Across Career Stages and Discimentioning
confidence: 99%
“…As Harzing and Alakangas (2016) have shown, this practice leads to a serious underestimation of citation impact in the Social Sciences and Humanities and, to a lesser extent, Engineering. Likewise, Harzing and Mijnhardt (2015) ranked Dutch economists based on their actual citation levels in GS—which they called proof —rather than on the journal impact factor of their publications in the Web of Science—which they called promise . They found the two rankings to be substantially different.…”
Section: Prior Research On Factors Influencing Citation Levelsmentioning
confidence: 99%