4 citations · 12 across the 6 of their papers we have counts for
7 papers
Within-Journal Self-citations and the Pinski-Narin Influence Weights
Gangan Prathap, Loet Leydesdorff
The Journal Impact Factor (JIF) is linearly sensitive to self-citations because each self-citation adds to the numerator, whereas the denominator is not affected. Pinski & Narin (1…
Scientific wealth and inequality within nations
Gangan Prathap
We show that the greater the scientific wealth of a nation, the more likely that it will tend to concentrate this excellence in a few premier institutions. That is, great wealth im…
Citation indices and dimensional homogeneity
Gangan Prathap
The importance of dimensional analysis and dimensional homogeneity in bibliometric studies is always overlooked. In this paper, we look at this issue systematically and show that m…
A conservation rule for constructing bibliometric network matrices
Gangan Prathap, Somenath Mukherjee
The social network analysis of bibliometric data needs matrices to be recast in a network framework. In this paper we argue that a simple conservation rule requires that this shoul…
End-to-end evaluation of research organizations
Gangan Prathap
End-to-end research evaluation needs to separate out the bibliometric part of the chain from the econometric part. We first introduce the role of size-dependent and size-independen…
Best of both worlds? Simultaneous evaluation of researchers and their works
Ephrance Abu Ujum, Gangan Prathap, Kuru Ratnavelu
This paper explores a dual score system that simultaneously evaluates the relative importance of researchers and their works. It is a modification of the CITEX algorithm recently d…