2010/06/15 by Loet Leydesdorff, Leydesdorff, Loet, Tobias Opthof +1
Computer Science · Decision Sciences · Economics, Econometrics and Finance · Mathematics · Physics and Astronomy · #Benford’s Law and Fraud Detection #Complex Systems and Time Series Analysis #cs.DL #physics.soc-ph #scientometrics and bibliometrics research
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1006.2895
arxiv created 2010/06/15 · arxiv updated 2010/06/16
Rejoinder to Moed [arXiv:1005.4906]: Our main objection is against developing new indicators which, like some of the older ones (for example, the "crown indicator" of CWTS), do not allow for indicating error because they do not provide a statistics, but are based, in our opinion, on a violation of the order of operations. The claim of validity for the SNIP indicator is hollow because the normalizations are based on field classifications which are not valid. Both problems can perhaps be solved by using fractional counting.