Characterization of the impact of sets of scientific papers: the Garfield (impact) factor
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Modifying the journal impact factor by fractional citation weighting: The audience factor
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
Journal of Information Science
References made and citations received by scientific articles
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Application of the distribution of citations among publications in scientometric evaluations
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Science funding and research output: a study on 10 countries
Scientometrics
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Similarly to the h-index and other indicators, the success-index is a recent indicator that makes it possible to identify, among a general group of papers, those of greater citation impact. This indicator implements a field-normalization at the level of single paper and can therefore be applied to multidisciplinary groups of articles. Also, it is very practical for normalizations aimed at achieving the so-called size-independency. Thanks to these (and other) properties, this indicator is particularly versatile when evaluating the publication output of entire research institutions. This paper exemplifies the potential of the success-index by means of several practical applications, respectively: (i) comparison of groups of researchers within the same scientific field, but affiliated with different universities, (ii) comparison of different departments of the same university, and (iii) comparison of entire research institutions. A sensitivity analysis will highlight the success-index's robustness. Empirical results suggest that the success-index may be conveniently extended to large-scale assessments, i.e., involving a large number of researchers and research institutions.