A SIMPLE INDEX FOR THE HIGH-CITATION TAIL OF CITATION DISTRIBUTION TO QUANTIFY RESEARCH PERFORMANCE IN COUNTRIES AND INSTITUTIONS.

A simple index for the high-citation tail of citation distribution to quantify research performance in countries and institutions.

BACKGROUND: Conventional scientometric predictors of research performance Dry Fruits such as the number of papers, citations, and papers in the top 1% of highly cited papers cannot be validated in terms of the number of Nobel Prize achievements across countries and institutions.The purpose of this paper is to find a bibliometric indicator that corr

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