TY - JOUR
T1 - Universal research index
T2 - An inclusive metric to quantify scientific research output
AU - USERN Advisory Board Members
AU - Keshavarz-Fathi, Mahsa
AU - Yazdanpanah, Niloufar
AU - Kolahchi, Sajad
AU - Ziaei, Heliya
AU - Darmstadt, Gary L.
AU - Dorigo, Tommaso
AU - Dochy, Filip
AU - Levin, Lisa
AU - Thongboonkerd, Visith
AU - Ogino, Shuji
AU - Chen, Wei Hsin
AU - Perc, Matjaz
AU - Tremblay, Mark S.
AU - Olusanya, Bolajoko O.
AU - Rao, Idupulapati M.
AU - Hatziargyriou, Nikos
AU - Moradi-Lakeh, Maziar
AU - Bella, Federico
AU - Rosivall, Laszlo
AU - Gandomi, Amir H.
AU - Sorooshian, Armin
AU - Gupta, Manoj
AU - Gal, Ciprian
AU - Lozano, Andres M.
AU - Weaver, Connie
AU - Tanzer, Michael
AU - Poggi, Alessandro
AU - Sepanlou, Sadaf G.
AU - Weiskirchen, Ralf
AU - Jambrak, Anet Režek
AU - Torres, Pedro J.
AU - Capanoglu, Esra
AU - Barba, Francisco J.
AU - Ernest, Chua Kian Jon
AU - Sigman, Mariano
AU - Pluchino, Stefano
AU - Gharehpetian, Gevork B.
AU - Fereshtehnejad, Seyed Mohammad
AU - Yang, Muh Hwa
AU - Thomas, Sabu
AU - Cai, Wenju
AU - Comini, Elisabetta
AU - Scolding, Neil J.
AU - Myles, Paul S.
AU - Nieto, Juan J.
AU - Perry, George
AU - Sedikides, Constantine
AU - Rezaei, Nima
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2023 Elsevier Inc.
PY - 2023/5
Y1 - 2023/5
N2 - Scientometrics and bibliometrics, the subfields of library and information science, deal with the quantity and quality of research outputs. Currently, various scientometric indices are being used to quantify and compare research outputs. The most widely known is the h-index. However, this index and its derivatives suffer from dependence on the mere count of a scholar's highly cited publications. To remedy this deficiency, we developed a novel index, the Universal Research Index (UR-Index) (https://usern2021.github.io/UR-Index/) by which every single publication has its own impact on the total score. We developed this index by surveying international top 1 % cited scientists in various disciplines and included additional component variables such as publication type, leading role of a scholar, co-author count, and source metrics to this scientometric index. We acknowledge that unconscious biases built into the component variables included in the UR-Index might put research from specific groups at a disadvantage, thus continued efforts to improve equitable scholarly impact in science and academia are encouraged.
AB - Scientometrics and bibliometrics, the subfields of library and information science, deal with the quantity and quality of research outputs. Currently, various scientometric indices are being used to quantify and compare research outputs. The most widely known is the h-index. However, this index and its derivatives suffer from dependence on the mere count of a scholar's highly cited publications. To remedy this deficiency, we developed a novel index, the Universal Research Index (UR-Index) (https://usern2021.github.io/UR-Index/) by which every single publication has its own impact on the total score. We developed this index by surveying international top 1 % cited scientists in various disciplines and included additional component variables such as publication type, leading role of a scholar, co-author count, and source metrics to this scientometric index. We acknowledge that unconscious biases built into the component variables included in the UR-Index might put research from specific groups at a disadvantage, thus continued efforts to improve equitable scholarly impact in science and academia are encouraged.
KW - Citations
KW - CiteScore
KW - Impact factor
KW - Leading author
KW - Research impact
KW - Scholarly impact
KW - Scholarly output
KW - Scientometrics
KW - UR-Index
KW - USERN
KW - h-index
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85152689116
U2 - 10.1016/j.acalib.2023.102714
DO - 10.1016/j.acalib.2023.102714
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85152689116
SN - 0099-1333
VL - 49
JO - Journal of Academic Librarianship
JF - Journal of Academic Librarianship
IS - 3
M1 - 102714
ER -