Axiomatizing the Hirsch index: Quantity and quality disjoined |
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| Authors: | Adrian Miroiu |
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| Institution: | Department of Political Science, National School of Political and Administrative Studies, Bucharest, Romania |
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| Abstract: | Scientific impact indexes like h are responsive to two parameters: the researcher's productivity given by the number of her published papers (an aspect of quantity) and citations (an aspect of quality). In this paper I prove that the two parameters can be treated separately: the index h can be axiomatized by appealing (1) only to axioms that allow for productivity changes, but do not require taking into account distinct situations in which a researcher's papers received different numbers of citations or (2) only to axioms that allow for changes in the number of citations received by the researcher's papers, but do not require changes in scientific productivity. The axioms used are weak. Specifically, monotonicity is avoided. |
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