Measuring Impact of 12 Information Scientists Using the DCI index
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چکیده
The Discounted Cumulated Impact (DCI) index has recently been proposed for research evaluation. In the present work, an earlier data set by Cronin & Meho (2007) is reanalyzed, with the aim of exemplifying the salient features of the DCI index. We apply the index on, and compare our results to the outcomes of, the Cronin-Meho (2007) study. Both authors and their top publications are used as units of analysis, which suggests that, by adjusting the parameters of evaluation according to the needs of research evaluation, the DCI index delivers data on an author’s (or publication’s) ‘lifetime’ impact or current impact at the time of evaluation, on an author’s (or publication’s) capability of inviting citations from highly-cited later publications as an indication of impact, and on the relative impact across a set of authors (or publications) over their ‘lifetime’ or currently.
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