Katsaros D , Akritidis L, Bozanis P "The f Index: Quantifying the Impact of Coterminal Citations on Scientists' Ranking more options " JASIST 60(5): 1051-1056 MAY 2009

Tue May 19 13:53:39 EDT 2009

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E-mail Addresses: dkatsar at inf.uth.gr, leoakr at uth.gr, pbozanis at inf.uth.gr 

TITLE : The f Index: Quantifying the Impact of Coterminal Citations on 
Scientists' Ranking more options 

Author(s): Katsaros D (Katsaros, Dimitrios)1, Akritidis L (Akritidis, 
Leonidas)1, Bozanis P (Bozanis, Panayiotis)1  

Source: JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND 
TECHNOLOGY    Volume: 60    Issue: 5    Pages: 1051-1056    Published: MAY 
2009    

Times Cited: 0     References: 21     Citation Map      

Abstract: 
Designing fair and unbiased metrics to measure the "level of excellence" of 
a scientist is a very significant task because they recently also have been 
taken into account when deciding faculty promotions, when allocating funds, 
and so on. Despite criticism that such scientometric evaluators are 
confronted with, they do have their merits, and efforts should be spent to 
arm them with robustness and resistance to manipulation. This article alms 
at initiating the study of the coterminal citations-their existence and 
implications-and presents them as a generalization of self-citations and of 
co-citation; it also shows how they can be used to capture any manipulation 
attempts against scientometric indicators, and finally presents a new 
index, the f index, that takes into account the coterminal citations. The 
utility of the new index is validated using the academic production of a 
number of esteemed computer scientists. The results confirm that the new 
index can discriminate those individuals whose work penetrates many 
scientific communities. 

Reprint Address: Katsaros, D (reprint author), Univ Thessaly, Dept Comp & 
Commun Engn, Volos, Greece  

Addresses: 
1. Univ Thessaly, Dept Comp & Commun Engn, Volos, Greece  

E-mail Addresses: dkatsar at inf.uth.gr, leoakr at uth.gr, pbozanis at inf.uth.gr 

publisher: JOHN WILEY & SONS INC, 111 RIVER ST, HOBOKEN, NJ 07030 USA  
IDS Number: 436NL  

ISSN: 1532-2882  
DOI: 10.1002/asi.21040  

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