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We introduce the dominance dimension principle and the parameterized family of criteria for the assessment of publication/citation profiles it generates. We show that by a suitable choice of parameters dominance dimension may specialize to the most widely known and used of those impact scores for the scientific output of authors which disallow endogenous reputation effects, including the Durfee- or h-number, the publication number and the citation number.
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Thanks are due to two anonymous referees for their most constructive criticisms and suggestions, as well as for providing me with valuable bibliographic references. In particular, one of the referees is to be credited for addressing me to the extant work on the h(2)-index and the g(2)-index.
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Vannucci, S. Dominance dimension: a common parametric formulation for integer-valued scientific impact indices. Scientometrics 84, 43–48 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-009-0091-1
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