Popular and/or Prestigious? Measures of Scholarly Esteem

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2011-01
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Information Processing and Management
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Citation analysis does not generally take the quality of citations into account: all citations are weighted equally irrespective of source. However, a scholar may be highly cited but not highly regarded: popularity and prestige are not identical measures of esteem. In this study we define popularity as the number of times an author is cited and prestige as the number of times an author is cited by highly cited papers. Information retrieval (IR) is the test field. We compare the 40 leading researchers in terms of their popularity and prestige over time. Some authors are ranked high on prestige but not on popularity, while others are ranked high on popularity but not on prestige. We also relate measures of popularity and prestige to date of Ph.D. award, number of key publications, organizational affiliation, receipt of prizes/honors, and gender.
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esteem, prestige, popularity, information retrieval, citation analysis
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Ding, Y., & Cronin, B. (2011). Popular and/or Prestigious? Measures of Scholarly Esteem, Information Processing and Management, 47(1), 80-96. (DOI:10.1016/j.ipm.2010.01.002).
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