Universality of scholarly impact metrics

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Highlights：

• We present a method to quantify the disciplinary bias of any scholarly impact metric.

• We use the method to evaluate a number of established scholarly impact metrics.

• We introduce a simple universal metric that allows to compare the impact of scholars across scientific disciplines.

摘要

Highlights•We present a method to quantify the disciplinary bias of any scholarly impact metric.•We use the method to evaluate a number of established scholarly impact metrics.•We introduce a simple universal metric that allows to compare the impact of scholars across scientific disciplines.

论文关键词：Impact metrics,Discipline bias,Universality,Bibliometrics

论文评审过程：Received 6 June 2013, Revised 5 September 2013, Accepted 9 September 2013, Available online 15 October 2013.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joi.2013.09.002