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Intellectual Infl uence: Quality versus Quantity

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  • László Á. Kóczy

    () (Óbuda University)

  • Alexandru Nichifor
  • Martin Strobel

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To take development and budgeting decisions for research activi- ties the officials in charge need to constantly evaluate and assess the quality of research. Over the years a handful of scoring methods for academic journals have been proposed. Discussing the most prominent methods (de facto standards) we show that they cannot distinguish quality from quantity at article level and that they are inherently biased against journals publishing more articles. If we consider the length of a journal by the number of pages or characters, then all methods are biased against lengthier journals. The systematic bias we nd is analytically tractable and implies that the methods are ma- nipulable. We show that the strategies for successful manipulation are relatively easy to infer and implement. The implications of our ndings extend beyond the evaluation of academic research, to related settings like the ranking of web domains. Non-manipulable methods for measuring intellectual in uence exist.

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Paper provided by Óbuda University, Keleti Faculty of Business and Management in its series Working Paper Series with number 1009.

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Length: 15 pages
Date of creation: 2010
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Handle: RePEc:pkk:wpaper:1009.rdf

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Keywords: scoring methods bias; ranking rules bias; impact factor; invariant method; LP method; invariance to article-splitting; quality and quantity in ranking academic journals;

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  1. Ignacio Palacios-Huerta & Oscar Volij, 2002. "The Measurement of Intellectual Influence," Economic theory and game theory 015, Oscar Volij.
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