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Non-cumulative measures of researcher citation impact

05/19/2021
by   Mark C Wilson, et al.
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The most commonly used publication metrics for individual researchers are the the total number of publications, the total number of citations, and Hirsch's h-index. Each of these is cumulative, and hence increases throughout a researcher's career, making it less suitable for evaluation of junior researchers or assessing recent impact. Most other author-level measures in the literature share this cumulative property. By contrast, we aim to study non-cumulative measures that answer the question "in terms of citation impact, what have you done lately?" We single out six measures from the rather sparse literature, including Hirsch's m-index, a time-scaled version of the h-index. We introduce new measures based on the idea of "citation acceleration". After presenting several axioms for non-cumulative measures, we conclude that one of our new measures has much better theoretical justification. We present a small-scale study of its performance on real data and conclude that it shows substantial promise for future use.

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