Uncertainties and Ambiguities in Percentiles and how to Avoid Them
arXiv:1205.3588
Abstract
The recently proposed fractional scoring scheme is used to attribute publications to percentile rank classes. It is shown that in this way uncertainties and ambiguities in the evaluation of percentile ranks do not occur. Using the fractional scoring the total score of all papers exactly reproduces the theoretical value.
6 pages, 2 figures, submitted to Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology