How to improve the outcome of performance evaluations in terms of percentiles for citation frequencies of my papers

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Highlights:

• For a given number of citations, the evaluation of the performance in terms of percentiles can depend strongly on the subject category.

• The proper choice of the journal for a manuscript thus influences the outcome of the evaluation.

• This effect is particularly strong for journals from different fields, but also from different subject categories in the same field.

• These observations are exemplified by an empirical investigation for 5 of my own publications.

摘要

•For a given number of citations, the evaluation of the performance in terms of percentiles can depend strongly on the subject category.•The proper choice of the journal for a manuscript thus influences the outcome of the evaluation.•This effect is particularly strong for journals from different fields, but also from different subject categories in the same field.•These observations are exemplified by an empirical investigation for 5 of my own publications.

论文关键词:Evaluation,Percentiles,Citation analysis,Bibliometric rankings

论文评审过程:Received 15 July 2014, Revised 13 August 2014, Accepted 1 September 2014, Available online 18 September 2014.

论文官网地址:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joi.2014.09.002