Further clarifications about the success-index |
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| Authors: | Fiorenzo Franceschini Maurizio Galetto Domenico Maisano Luca Mastrogiacomo |
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| Institution: | 1. Departamento de Economía, Universidad Carlos III of Madrid, Spain;2. Centre for Science and Technology Studies, Leiden University, Netherlands;1. Policy Institute at King’s, King’s College London, 22 Kingsway, London WC2B 6LE, UK;2. Institute for Scientific Information, Clarivate Analytics, Blackfriars Road, London SE1 8EZ, UK;1. The Graduate School of Public Policy and Information Technology, Seoul National University of Science and Technology, 172 Gongreung 2-dong, Nowon-gu, Seoul 139-746, Republic of Korea;2. Department of Systems Management Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University, 300 Chunchun-dong, Jangan-gu, Kyunggi-do 440-746, Republic of Korea;1. Division for Science and Innovation Studies, Administrative Headquarters of the Max Planck Society, Hofgartenstr. 8, 80539 Munich, Germany;2. Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, Heisenbergstr. 1, 70569 Stuttgart, Germany;1. CNR-CERIS, National Research Council of Italy, Institute for Economic Research on Firm and Growth, via Real Collegio, 30, I-10024 Moncalieri (TO), Italy;2. University of Torino, Department of Chemistry, via P. Giuria, 7, I-10125 Torino, Italy |
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| Abstract: | The aim of this brief communication is to reply to a letter by Kosmulski (Journal of Informetrics 6(3):368–369, 2012), which criticizes a recent indicator called “success-index”. The most interesting features of this indicator, presented in Franceschini et al. (Scientometrics, in press), are: (i) allowing the selection of an “elite” subset from a set of publications and (ii) implementing the field-normalization at the level of an individual publication. We show that the Kosmulski's criticism is unfair and inappropriate, as it is the result of a misinterpretation of the indicator. |
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