A New Ranking Scheme for the Institutional Scientific Performance

TL;DR

This paper introduces a new metric for assessing research institutions' scientific productivity by combining journal impact factors and citation counts, weighted by author contributions, to provide a comprehensive performance score.

Contribution

The paper presents a novel institutional performance indicator that integrates journal impact and citation data, accounting for author contributions, to improve evaluation accuracy.

Findings

The new metric effectively differentiates institutional research performance.

Application to Turkish astronomy institutions demonstrates its utility.

Comparison shows advantages over existing indicators.

Abstract

We propose a new performance indicator to evaluate the productivity of research institutions by their disseminated scientific papers. The new quality measure includes two principle components: the normalized impact factor of the journal in which paper was published, and the number of citations received per year since it was published. In both components, the scientific impacts are weighted by the contribution of authors from the evaluated institution. As a whole, our new metric, namely, the institutional performance score takes into account both journal based impact and articles specific impacts. We apply this new scheme to evaluate research output performance of Turkish institutions specialized in astronomy and astrophysics in the period of 1998-2012. We discuss the implications of the new metric, and emphasize the benefits of it along with comparison to other proposed institutional performance indicators.