Drawbacks of Normalization by Percentile Ranks in Citation Impact Studies
This paper discusses drawbacks of the percentile rank method for citation impact normalization which have hitherto been neglected in the bibliometrics literature. The transformation of citation counts to percentile ranks changes ratio scale data into ordinal scale data, for which the notions of the...
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| Language: | English |
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National Taiwan University
2022-12-01
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| Series: | Journal of Library and Information Studies |
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| Online Access: | https://jlis.lis.ntu.edu.tw/files/journal/j55-4.pdf |