An absolute index (Ab-index) to measure a researcher's useful useful contributions and productivity
Bibliographic analysis has been a very powerful tool in evaluating the effective contributions of a researcher and determining his/her future research potential. The lack of an absolute quantification of the author’s scientific contributions by the existing measurement system hampers the decision-ma...
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| author | Biswal, Akshaya Kumar |
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| description | Bibliographic analysis has been a very powerful tool in evaluating the effective contributions of a researcher and determining his/her future research potential. The lack of an absolute quantification of the author’s scientific contributions by the existing measurement system hampers the decision-making process. In this paper, a new metric system, Absolute index (Ab-index), has been proposed that allows a more objective comparison of the contributions of a researcher. The Ab-index takes into account the impact of research findings while keeping in mind the physical and intellectual contributions of the author(s) in accomplishing the task. The Ab-index and h-index were calculated for 10 highly cited geneticists and molecular biologist and 10 young researchers of biological sciences and compared for their relationship to the researchers input as a primary author. This is the first report of a measuring method clarifying the contributions of the first author, corresponding author, and other co-authors and the sharing of credit in a logical ratio. A java application has been developed for the easy calculation of the Ab-index. It can be used as a yardstick for comparing the credibility of different scientists competing for the same resources while the Productivity index (Pr-index), which is the rate of change in the Ab-index per year, can be used for comparing scientists of different age groups. The Ab-index has clear advantage over other popular metric systems in comparing scientific credibility of young scientists. The sum of the Ab-indices earned by individual researchers of an institute per year can be referred to as Pr-index of the institute. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1655702025-01-24T14:13:04Z An absolute index (Ab-index) to measure a researcher's useful useful contributions and productivity Biswal, Akshaya Kumar Bibliographic analysis has been a very powerful tool in evaluating the effective contributions of a researcher and determining his/her future research potential. The lack of an absolute quantification of the author’s scientific contributions by the existing measurement system hampers the decision-making process. In this paper, a new metric system, Absolute index (Ab-index), has been proposed that allows a more objective comparison of the contributions of a researcher. The Ab-index takes into account the impact of research findings while keeping in mind the physical and intellectual contributions of the author(s) in accomplishing the task. The Ab-index and h-index were calculated for 10 highly cited geneticists and molecular biologist and 10 young researchers of biological sciences and compared for their relationship to the researchers input as a primary author. This is the first report of a measuring method clarifying the contributions of the first author, corresponding author, and other co-authors and the sharing of credit in a logical ratio. A java application has been developed for the easy calculation of the Ab-index. It can be used as a yardstick for comparing the credibility of different scientists competing for the same resources while the Productivity index (Pr-index), which is the rate of change in the Ab-index per year, can be used for comparing scientists of different age groups. The Ab-index has clear advantage over other popular metric systems in comparing scientific credibility of young scientists. The sum of the Ab-indices earned by individual researchers of an institute per year can be referred to as Pr-index of the institute. 2013-12-31 2024-12-19T12:55:12Z 2024-12-19T12:55:12Z Journal Article https://hdl.handle.net/10568/165570 en Open Access Public Library of Science Biswal, Akshaya Kumar. 2013. An absolute index (Ab-index) to measure a researcher's useful useful contributions and productivity. PLoS ONE, Volume 8 no. 12 p. e84334 |
| spellingShingle | Biswal, Akshaya Kumar An absolute index (Ab-index) to measure a researcher's useful useful contributions and productivity |
| title | An absolute index (Ab-index) to measure a researcher's useful useful contributions and productivity |
| title_full | An absolute index (Ab-index) to measure a researcher's useful useful contributions and productivity |
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| title_full_unstemmed | An absolute index (Ab-index) to measure a researcher's useful useful contributions and productivity |
| title_short | An absolute index (Ab-index) to measure a researcher's useful useful contributions and productivity |
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