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On measuring scientific influence

Author:	Ravallion, Martin; Wagstaff, Adam;	Collection Title:	Policy Research working paper ; no. WPS 5375
Country:	World;	Date Stored:	2010/07/22
Document Date:	2010/07/01	Document Type:	Policy Research Working Paper
Language:	English	Region:	The World Region
Report Number:	WPS5375	SubTopics:	Information and Records Management; Information Security & Privacy; Economic Theory & Research; Tertiary Education; Knowledge for Development
Volume No:	1 of 1

Summary: Bibliometric measures based on citations are widely used in assessing the scientific publication records of authors, institutions and journals. Yet currently favored measures lack a clear conceptual foundation and are known to have counter-intuitive properties. The authors propose a new approach that is grounded on a theoretical "influence function," representing explicit prior beliefs about how citations reflect influence. They provide conditions for robust qualitative comparisons of influence -- conditions that can be implemented using readily-available data. An example is provided using the economics publication records of selected universities and the World Bank.


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