aEconomic and Social Research Institute, Dublin, Ireland
bInstitute for Environmental Studies, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
cDepartment of Engineering and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Abstract:
A rational, successive g-index is proposed, and applied to economics departments in Ireland. The successive g-index has greater discriminatory power than the successive h-index, and the rational index performs better still. The rational, successive g-index is also more robust to differences in department size.