Fair ranking of researchers and research teams

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0195509" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0195509</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0195509" target="_blank" >10.1371/journal.pone.0195509</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Fair ranking of researchers and research teams

Original language description

The main drawback of ranking of researchers by the number of papers, citations or by the Hirsch index is ignoring the problem of distributing authorship among authors in multi-author publications. So far, the single-author or multi-author publications contribute to the publication record of a researcher equally. This full counting scheme is apparently unfair and causes unjust disproportions, in particular, if ranked researchers have distinctly different collaboration profiles. These disproportions are removed by less common fractional or authorship-weighted counting schemes, which can distribute the authorship credit more properly and suppress a tendency to unjustified inflation of co-authors. The urgent need of widely adopting a fair ranking scheme in practise is exemplified by analysing citation profiles of several highly-cited astronomers and astrophysicists. While the full counting scheme often leads to completely incorrect and misleading ranking, the fractional or authorship-weighted schemes are more accurate and applicable to ranking of researchers as well as research teams. In addition, they suppress differences in ranking among scientific disciplines. These more appropriate schemes should urgently be adopted by scientific publication databases as the Web of Science (Thomson Reuters) or the Scopus (Elsevier).

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10201 - Computer sciences, information science, bioinformathics (hardware development to be 2.2, social aspect to be 5.8)

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2018

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

PLoS ONE

ISSN

1932-6203

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

13

Issue of the periodical within the volume

4

Country of publishing house

US - UNITED STATES

Number of pages

17

Pages from-to

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UT code for WoS article

000429206800096

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85045047441