| Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 523179 | Journal of Informetrics | 2013 | 6 Pages |
•Two scientometric impact indicators, Percentage Rank Position (PRP) and Relative Elite Rate (RER) are introduced.•The PRP-index relates the ordinal position of the article ranked by citations to the total number of articles in the publishing journal.•The RER-index relates the number of citations to the article to the mean citation frequency of the most cited papers in the publishing journal.•The indices are based on the elite set concept, i.e. information in the relatively highly cited papers may exert greater impact on science.•The indicators may be applied comparatively across fields.
To take into account the impact of the different bibliometric features of scientific fields and different size of both the publication set evaluated and the set used as reference standard, two new impact indicators are introduced. The Percentage Rank Position (PRP) indicator relates the ordinal rank position of the article assessed to the total number of papers in the publishing journal. The publications in the publishing journal are ranked by the decreasing citation frequency. The Relative Elite Rate (RER) indicator relates the number of citations obtained by the article assessed to the mean citation rate of the papers in the elite set of the publishing journal. The indices can be preferably calculated from the data of the publications in the elite set of journal papers of individuals, teams, institutes or countries. The number of papers in the elite set is calculated by the equation: P(πv) = (10 log P) − 10, where P is the total number of papers. The mean of the PRP and RER indicators of the journal papers assessed may be applied for comparing the eminence of publication sets across fields.
