indicators of citation impact: a family of high-impact indicators imported from the poverty literature in Economics, and a set of …

rest of the world are evaluated using a pair of high- and low-impact indicators, as well as the mean citation rate. The … 113 out of 219 sub-fields, the U.S. is ahead of the EU in 189 and 163 sub-fields in terms of the high- and low-impact … indicators. In the second place, we verify that using the high-impact indicator the U.S./EU gap is usually greater than when …

We study the problem of normalizing citation impact indicators for differences in citation practices across scientific … fields. Normalization of citation impact indicators is usually done based on a field classification system. In practice, the …. Globally, for all the universities taken together citation impact indicators generally turn out to be relatively insensitive to …