2014/08/18 by Ognjen Arandjelović, Ognjen Arandjelovic, Arandjelovic, Ognjen
Computer Science · Decision Sciences · #Computers and Society (cs.CY) #Digital Libraries (cs.DL) #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Meta-analysis and systematic reviews #cs.CY #cs.DL #scientometrics and bibliometrics research
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1408.3881
arxiv created 2014/08/18 · openalex publication_date 2014/08/18 · arxiv updated 2014/08/19 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
I describe a simple modification which can be applied to any citation count-based index (e.g. Hirsch's h-index) quantifying a researcher's publication output. The key idea behind the proposed approach is that the merit for the citations of a paper should be distributed amongst its authors according to their relative contributions. In addition to producing inherently fairer metrics I show that the proposed modification has the potential to partially normalize for the unfair effects of honorary authorship and thus discourage this practice.