P-score: A Publication-based Metric for Academic Productivity

In this work we propose a metric to assess academic productivity based on publication outputs. We are interested in knowing how well a research group in an area of knowledge is doing relatively to a pre-selected set of reference groups, where each group is composed by academics or researchers. To assess academic productivity we propose a new metric, which we call P-score. Our metric P-score assigns weights to venues using only the publication patterns of selected reference groups. This implies that P-score does not depend on citation-data and thus, that it is simpler to compute particularly in contexts in which citation data is not easily available. Also, preliminary experiments suggest that P-score preserves strong correlation with citation-based metrics.