The Quartile Index Calculation for the Leading Russian Universities and its Pairwise Correlations with Other Scientific Metrics

Moskovkin, Vladimir M., Reznichenko, Oleg S., Peresypkin, Andrey P. and Doborovich, Anna N. The Quartile Index Calculation for the Leading Russian Universities and its Pairwise Correlations with Other Scientific Metrics. Informology, 2022, vol. 1, n. 2, pp. 11-26. [Journal article (Paginated)]

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The historical survey of the foundation and development of the quartile index in different fields of knowledge, as well as that one of the percentile index in scientometrics, was conducted. Based on the improved quartile index introduced in scientometrics by A.V. Grinev, the calculations of three types of such indices, based on the CiteScore, SNIP and SJR impact factors for 45 leading Russian universities at the levels of 2019 and 2020, were carried out. The Scopus articles published in quartile-free journals were included into the calculations. The proportions of Scopus articles published in Q1 and Q2 journals were also calculated. Pairwise correlations were calculated between six indicators supplemented by the h-index. The best results had the pairwise correlations of the Quarterly Indices and their pairwise correlations with the h-index. The worst results were obtained in pairwise correlations between Quarterly Indices and Scopus articles proportions in Q1 and Q2 journals. Despite the fact that the quartile index has great advantages over the h-index and other h-like indices, since it covers the entire range of publications of the author or another subject of publication activity, as well as the qualitative structure of publications based on their distribution by quartiles, it showed a good correlation with the h-index (in different experiments the values of the Pearson correlation coefficient between these indices varied from 0.81 to 0.85.

Item type: Journal article (Paginated)
Keywords: Quartile indices, Percentile indices, Scientometrics, Publication activity, CiteScore
Subjects: B. Information use and sociology of information > BB. Bibliometric methods
Depositing user: Dr. Alireza Noruzi
Date deposited: 12 Aug 2023 09:19
Last modified: 12 Aug 2023 09:19
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10760/44364

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