4 papers
A 'normal' research trap limits scientific breakthroughs and disruptive innovation in the European Union
Alonso Rodríguez-Navarro
Europe is experiencing prolonged slow growth, resulting in part from a shortage of disruptive innovations that has locked its industry into a middle technology trap. Although great…
Sum of rank ratios: an alternative to percentiles for research assessment, from groundbreaking to mainstream research
Alonso Rodriguez-Navarro
Assessing research that pushes the boundaries of knowledge is challenging because such work is extremely infrequent, accounting for only about 0.01 per cent of all research outputs…
The Rn-index: a more accurate variant of the Rk-index
Alonso Rodriguez-Navarro
The contribution to pushing the boundaries of knowledge is a critical metric for evaluating the research performance of countries and institutions, which in many cases is not revea…
Distinct citation distributions complicate research evaluations. A single indicator that universally reveals research efficiency cannot be formulated
Alonso Rodríguez-Navarro
Purpose: Analyze the diversity of citation distributions to publications in different research topics to investigate the accuracy of size-independent, rank-based indicators. Top pe…