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Rank analysis of most cited publications, a new approach for research assessments
Alonso Rodriguez-Navarro, Ricardo Brito
Citation metrics are the best tools for research assessments. However, current metrics may be misleading in research systems that pursue simultaneously different goals, such as the…
Common bibliometric approaches fail to assess correctly the number of important scientific advances for most countries and institutions
Alonso Rodriguez-Navarro, Ricardo Brito
Although not explicitly declared, most research rankings of countries and institutions are supposed to reveal their contribution to the advancement of knowledge. However, such adva…
The extreme upper tail of Japan's citation distribution reveals its research success
Alonso Rodriguez-Navarro, Ricardo Brito
A number of indications, such as the number of Nobel Prize winners, show Japan to be a scientifically advanced country. However, standard bibliometric indicators place Japan as a s…
The link between countries' economic and scientific wealth has a complex dependence on technological activity and research policy
Alonso Rodriguez-Navarro, Ricardo Brito
We studied the research performance of 69 countries by considering two different types of new knowledge: incremental (normal) and fundamental (radical). In principle, these two typ…
Validated research assessment based on highly cited researchers
Alonso Rodriguez-Navarro, Ricardo Brito
Bibliometrics provides accurate, cheap and simple descriptions of research systems and should lay the foundations for research policy. However, disconnections between bibliometric…
The inconsistency of h-index: a mathematical analysis
Ricardo Brito, Alonso Rodríguez Navarro
Citation distributions are lognormal. We use 30 lognormally distributed synthetic series of numbers that simulate real series of citations to investigate the consistency of the h i…
Might Europe one day again be a global scientific powerhouse? Analysis of ERC publications suggests it will not be possible without changes in research policy
Alonso Rodríguez-Navarro, Ricardo Brito
Numerous EU documents praise the excellence of EU research without empirical evidence and against academic studies. We investigated research performance in two fields of high socio…
Like-for-like bibliometric substitutes for peer review: advantages and limits of indicators calculated from the ep index
Alonso Rodriguez Navarro, Ricardo Brito
The use of bibliometric indicators would simplify research assessments. The 2014 Research Excellence Framework (REF) is a peer review assessment of UK universities, whose results c…
Evaluating research and researchers by the journal impact factor: is it better than coin flipping?
Ricardo Brito, Alonso Rodríguez-Navarro
The journal impact factor (JIF) is the average of the number of citations of the papers published in a journal, calculated according to a specific formula; it is extensively used f…
Probability and expected frequency of breakthroughs - a robust method of research assessment based on the double rank property of citation distributions
Alonso Rodriguez-Navarro, Ricardo Brito
In research policy, effective measures that lead to improvements in the generation of knowledge must be based on reliable methods of research assessment, but for many countries and…
The USA is an indisputable world leader in medical and biotechnological research
Ricardo Brito, Alonso Rodríguez-Navarro
A country's research success can be assessed from the power law function that links country and world rank numbers when publications are ordered by their number of citations; a sim…
Technological research in the EU is less efficient than the world average. EU research policy risks Europeans' future
Alonso Rodriguez-Navarro, Ricardo Brito
We have studied the efficiency of research in the EU by a percentile-based citation approach that analyzes the distribution of country papers among the world papers. Going up in th…
Research assessment by percentile-based double rank analysis
Ricardo Brito, Alonso Rodriguez-Navarro
In the double rank analysis of research publications, the local rank position of a country or institution publication is expressed as a function of the world rank position. Excludi…