In search of a scientific elite: highly cited researchers (HCR) in France

L Chaignon, D Docampo, D Egret - Scientometrics, 2023 - Springer
A high level of citations is generally associated with the exceptional influence of an article.
Authors of several highly cited articles are thus considered and scrutinized as influential …

The Academic Midas Touch: An Unconventional Scientometric for Evaluating Academic Excellence

A Rosenfled, A Alexi, L Mushiev, T Lazebnik - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
The recognition of academic excellence is fundamental to the scientific and academic
endeavor. In particular, academic scientometrics that are able to computationally capture …

[PDF][PDF] Proxy Variables and Feedback Effects in Decision Making

A Clyde - Decision Making, 2023 - congress-files.s3.amazonaws.com
When using data, often an analyst only has access to proxies or measurements of the true
variables of interest. I propose a framework that models economic decision makers as …

Using Journal Impact Factor to Assess Scholarly Records: Overcorrecting for the Potter Stewart Approach to Promotion and Tenure

EA Oldmixon, JT Grant - The Forum, 2019 - degruyter.com
Promotion and tenure decisions frequently require an assessment of the quality of a
candidate's research record. Without carefully specifying what constitutes a tenurable and …