Corrigendum to "Is the expertise of evaluation panels congruent with the research interests of the research groups: a quantitative approach based on barycenters" [Journal of Informetrics 9(4) (2015) 704-721]

TL;DR

This paper corrects previous terminology related to measuring cognitive distance between research units, replacing 'barycenters' with 'similarity-adapted publication vectors' to improve conceptual clarity.

Contribution

It clarifies and refines the terminology used in measuring cognitive distances, enhancing the accuracy of research evaluation methods.

Findings

Terminology correction from 'barycenters' to 'similarity-adapted publication vectors'

Improved conceptual framework for cognitive distance measurement

Enhanced clarity in research evaluation approaches

Abstract

In Rahman, Guns, Rousseau, and Engels (2015) we described several approaches to determine the cognitive distance between two units. One of these approaches was based on what we called barycenters in N dimensions. This note corrects this terminology and introduces the more adequate term 'similarity-adapted publication vectors'.