A quantitative analysis of measures of quality in science

Details A quantitative analysis of measures of quality in science A quantitative analysis of measures of quality in science

2007-01-27

arxiv.org/abs/physics/0701311v1

Scientometrics 76:369-390,2008

Physics

Physics and Society

11 pages, 8 figures, 4 tables

Scientific paper

10.1007/s11192-007-1868-8

Condensing the work of any academic scientist into a one-dimensional measure of scientific quality is a difficult problem. Here, we employ Bayesian statistics to analyze several different measures of quality. Specifically, we determine each measure's ability to discriminate between scientific authors. Using scaling arguments, we demonstrate that the best of these measures require approximately 50 papers to draw conclusions regarding long term scientific performance with usefully small statistical uncertainties. Further, the approach described here permits the value-free (i.e., statistical) comparison of scientists working in distinct areas of science.

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