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indifference

This metric is simply the total number of publications divided by the number of total number of citations (Egghe and Rousseau 1996); it was originally proposed to evaluate journals but can be applied to individuals as well. The larger this value, the more indifferent the community is to the author's work. This metric is also just the inverse of mean citations per publication.

$$D=\frac{P}{C^P}$$

History

YearD
19973.0000
19980.5714
19990.2045
20000.1795
20010.1277
20020.0866
20030.0655
20040.0457
20050.0376
20060.0268
20070.0218
20080.0182
20090.0164
20100.0152
20110.0136
20120.0118
20130.0113
20140.0103
20150.0096
20160.0090
20170.0084
20180.0083
20190.0079
20200.0075
20210.0071
20220.0071
20230.0069
20240.0069

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