An evaluation of percentile measures of citation impact, and a proposal for making them better

Percentiles are statistics pointing to the standing of a paper’s citation impact relative to other papers in a given citation distribution. Percentile Ranks ( PR s) often play an important role in evaluating the impact of researchers, institutions, and similar lines of study. Because PR s are so imp...

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Published in:	Scientometrics Vol. 124; no. 2; pp. 1457 - 1478
Main Authors:	Bornmann, Lutz, Williams, Richard
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	Cham Springer International Publishing 01.08.2020 Springer Nature B.V
Subjects:	Bibliometrics Citation analysis Citations Computer Science Evaluation Graphs Information Storage and Retrieval Library Science Normalization Public relations Researchers Statistics Percentile Plotting position Bibliometrics Citation analysis Percentile rank Percentile point Field-normalization
ISSN:	0138-9130, 1588-2861
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