Comparative rank assessment of journal articles

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Highlights：

• Two scientometric impact indicators, Percentage Rank Position (PRP) and Relative Elite Rate (RER) are introduced.

• The PRP-index relates the ordinal position of the article ranked by citations to the total number of articles in the publishing journal.

• The RER-index relates the number of citations to the article to the mean citation frequency of the most cited papers in the publishing journal.

• The indices are based on the elite set concept, i.e. information in the relatively highly cited papers may exert greater impact on science.

• The indicators may be applied comparatively across fields.

摘要

•Two scientometric impact indicators, Percentage Rank Position (PRP) and Relative Elite Rate (RER) are introduced.•The PRP-index relates the ordinal position of the article ranked by citations to the total number of articles in the publishing journal.•The RER-index relates the number of citations to the article to the mean citation frequency of the most cited papers in the publishing journal.•The indices are based on the elite set concept, i.e. information in the relatively highly cited papers may exert greater impact on science.•The indicators may be applied comparatively across fields.

论文关键词：Elite set,Evaluation,Percentage Rank Position,Rank by citation rate,Normalization by field,Normalization by size

论文评审过程：Received 24 January 2013, Revised 14 March 2013, Accepted 16 April 2013, Available online 31 May 2013.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joi.2013.04.006