Abstract
We analyse the usefulness of Jain’s fairness measure and the related Prathap’s bibliometric z-index as proxies when estimating the parameters of the 3DSI (three dimensions of scientific impact) model.
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The authors would also like to thank Professor Prathap for valuable remarks. This research was supported by the Australian Research Council Discovery Project ARC DP210100227 (MG) and by the POB Research Centre Cybersecurity and Data Science of Warsaw University of Technology within the Excellence Initiative Program—Research University (ID-UB) (GS and AC).
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Gagolewski, M., Żogała-Siudem, B., Siudem, G. et al. Fairness in the three-dimensional model for citation impact. Scientometrics 127, 6055–6059 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-022-04497-1
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