Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Quantifying Scholarly Impact: IQp Versus the Hirsch h
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Management by Measurement: Designing Key Indicators and Performance Measurement Systems
Management by Measurement: Designing Key Indicators and Performance Measurement Systems
Estimating number of citations using author reputation
SPIRE'07 Proceedings of the 14th international conference on String processing and information retrieval
Scientometrics
Dynamic texture recognition using normal flow and texture regularity
IbPRIA'05 Proceedings of the Second Iberian conference on Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis - Volume Part II
The Hirsch index and related impact measures
Annual Review of Information Science and Technology
Aggregating productivity indices for ranking researchers across multiple areas
Proceedings of the 13th ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries
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Evaluating the career of individual scientists according to their scientific output is a common bibliometric problem. Two aspects are classically taken into account: overall productivity and overall diffusion/impact, which can be measured by a plethora of indicators that consider publications and/or citations separately or synthesise these two quantities into a single number (e.g. h-index). A secondary aspect, which is sometimes mentioned in the rules of competitive examinations for research position/promotion, is time regularity of one researcher's scientific output. Despite the fact that it is sometimes invoked, a clear definition of regularity is still lacking. We define it as the ability of generating an active and stable research output over time, in terms of both publications/quantity and citations/diffusion. The goal of this paper is introducing three analysis tools to perform qualitative/quantitative evaluations on the regularity of one scientist's output in a simple and organic way. These tools are respectively (1) the PY/CY diagram, (2) the publication/citation Ferrers diagram and (3) a simplified procedure for comparing the research output of several scientists according to their publication and citation temporal distributions (Borda's ranking). Description of these tools is supported by several examples.