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An axiomatic analysis of Egghe’s g-index

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  • Woeginger, Gerhard J.
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    The g-index is a well-known index for measuring and comparing the output of scientific researchers, which has been introduced by Leo Egghe in 2006 as an improvement of the Hirsch-index. This article gives an axiomatic characterization of the g-index in terms of three natural axioms.

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    Volume (Year): 2 (2008)
    Issue (Month): 4 ()
    Pages: 364-368

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    Handle: RePEc:eee:infome:v:2:y:2008:i:4:p:364-368
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    Keywords: Scientific impact measures; Citation analysis; Axiomatization;

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    1. Richard S.J. Tol, 2007. "A Rational, Successive G-Index Applied To Economics Departments In Ireland," Working Papers FNU-147, Research unit Sustainability and Global Change, Hamburg University, revised Sep 2007.
    2. Aboudi, Ronny & Thon, Dominique, 2006. "Refinements of Muirhead's Lemma and income inequality," Mathematical Social Sciences, Elsevier, vol. 51(2), pages 201-216, March.
    3. Woeginger, Gerhard J., 2008. "An axiomatic characterization of the Hirsch-index," Mathematical Social Sciences, Elsevier, vol. 56(2), pages 224-232, September.
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    1. Franceschini, Fiorenzo & Maisano, Domenico A., 2010. "Analysis of the Hirsch index's operational properties," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 203(2), pages 494-504, June.
    2. Lucio Bertoli-Barsotti, 2016. "Normalizing the g-index," Scientometrics, Springer;Akadémiai Kiadó, vol. 106(2), pages 645-655, February.
    3. Woeginger, Gerhard J., 2014. "Investigations on the step-based research indices of Chambers and Miller," Journal of Informetrics, Elsevier, vol. 8(3), pages 659-666.
    4. Adachi, Tsuyoshi & Kongo, Takumi, 2015. "Further axiomatizations of Egghe's g-index," Journal of Informetrics, Elsevier, vol. 9(4), pages 839-844.
    5. da Silva, Roberto & Kalil, Fahad & de Oliveira, José Palazzo Moreira & Martinez, Alexandre Souto, 2012. "Universality in bibliometrics," Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, Elsevier, vol. 391(5), pages 2119-2128.
    6. Mukherjee , Conan, 2016. "Inferring Authorship from Publications: An Axiomatic Study," Working Papers 2016:14, Lund University, Department of Economics.
    7. Alonso, S. & Cabrerizo, F.J. & Herrera-Viedma, E. & Herrera, F., 2009. "h-Index: A review focused in its variants, computation and standardization for different scientific fields," Journal of Informetrics, Elsevier, vol. 3(4), pages 273-289.
    8. Rousseau, Ronald, 2008. "Woeginger's axiomatisation of the h-index and its relation to the g-index, the h(2)-index and the R2-index," Journal of Informetrics, Elsevier, vol. 2(4), pages 335-340.
    9. van Eck, N.J.P. & Waltman, L., 2008. "Generalizing the h- and g-indices," ERIM Report Series Research in Management ERS-2008-049-LIS, Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), ERIM is the joint research institute of the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University and the Erasmus School of Economics (ESE) at Erasmus University Rotterdam.
    10. van Eck, Nees Jan & Waltman, Ludo, 2008. "Generalizing the h- and g-indices," Journal of Informetrics, Elsevier, vol. 2(4), pages 263-271.
    11. Gagolewski, Marek, 2013. "Scientific impact assessment cannot be fair," Journal of Informetrics, Elsevier, vol. 7(4), pages 792-802.
    12. Bouyssou, Denis & Marchant, Thierry, 2014. "An axiomatic approach to bibliometric rankings and indices," Journal of Informetrics, Elsevier, vol. 8(3), pages 449-477.
    13. Kongo, Takumi, 2014. "An alternative axiomatization of the Hirsch index," Journal of Informetrics, Elsevier, vol. 8(1), pages 252-258.

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