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scientific quality index

The Scientific Quality Index (Pluskiewicz et al. 2019) is a slightly odd metric which is simply the sum of the mean citations per publication and the percent of publications with 10 or more citations (both adjusted for self- and co-author citations, in a perfect world). The authors considered it to be a slightly better judge of quality than metrics such as the h-index.

Example

Publications are ordered by number of non-self citations, from highest to lowest.

Non-self Citations5525161297111110000000
Rank123456789101112131415161718

Of the 18 publications, 4 have 10 or more non-self citations, 4/18 = 22.2%. The total non-self citations is 129, thus the mean non-self citations per publication is 7.2. The SQI is the sum of these values, or 29.4.

History

YearSQI
19970.0000
19981.6250
199926.7778
200026.7143
200129.3889
200233.0909
200352.4231
200465.3448
200573.9143
200688.7500
2007110.7692
2008126.3902
2009128.1556
2010130.6275
2011141.1636
2012151.1250
2013151.9516
2014159.7812
2015166.3881
2016177.8986
2017187.5429
2018185.2533
2019194.1711
2020201.6494
2021209.7215
2022207.0000
2023216.8810
2024216.9655
2025214.9438

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