On some properties of medians, percentiles, baselines, and thresholds in empirical bibliometric analysis
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Highlights：
• We test common and “self-explaining” ranking terminology in bibliometrics.
• Due to different reasons, “medians” are often not halves, “quartiles” are not quarters, percentiles are not hundredths.
• Almost half of all world papers are published in Q1 journals.
• The effect of whole/fractional counting on normalized indicators is studied.
• We propose more complicated but more well-founded methods for addressing the “borderline” highly cited papers.
摘要
•We test common and “self-explaining” ranking terminology in bibliometrics.•Due to different reasons, “medians” are often not halves, “quartiles” are not quarters, percentiles are not hundredths.•Almost half of all world papers are published in Q1 journals.•The effect of whole/fractional counting on normalized indicators is studied.•We propose more complicated but more well-founded methods for addressing the “borderline” highly cited papers.
论文关键词：Ranking methods,Percentiles,Quartiles,Highly cited papers,InCites
论文评审过程：Received 19 November 2021, Revised 27 July 2022, Accepted 5 August 2022, Available online 26 August 2022, Version of Record 26 August 2022.
论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joi.2022.101322
