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Causal foundations of bias, disparity and fairness
V. A. Traag, L. Waltman
The study of biases, such as gender or racial biases, is an important topic in the social and behavioural sciences. However, the literature does not always clearly define the conce…
Metrics and peer review agreement at the institutional level
V. A. Traag, M. Malgarini, S. Sarlo
In the past decades, many countries have started to fund academic institutions based on the evaluation of their scientific performance. In this context, post-publication peer revie…
Inferring the causal effect of journals on citations
V. A. Traag
Articles in high-impact journals are, on average, more frequently cited. But are they cited more often because those articles are somehow more "citable"? Or are they cited more oft…
Intermediacy of publications
Lovro Šubelj, Ludo Waltman, Vincent Traag +1
Citation networks of scientific publications offer fundamental insights into the structure and development of scientific knowledge. We propose a new measure, called intermediacy, f…
Systematic analysis of agreement between metrics and peer review in the UK REF
Vincent Traag, Ludo Waltman
When performing a national research assessment, some countries rely on citation metrics whereas others, such as the UK, primarily use peer review. In the influential Metric Tide re…
Use of the journal impact factor for assessing individual articles: Statistically flawed or not?
Ludo Waltman, Vincent A. Traag
Most scientometricians reject the use of the journal impact factor for assessing individual articles and their authors. The well-known San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessm…