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THE EXPONENTIAL AUTHOR-WEIGHTED SCHEME USED TO EVALUATE AUTHOR-/COUNTRY-LEVEL RESEARCH 

ACHIEVEMENTS FOR A SCHOLAR JOURNAL: 

A BIBLIOMETRIC ANALYSIS

Tung-Hui Jen

Department of Chinese Medicine, Chi-Mei Medical Center, Taiwan

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Tsair-Wei Chien

Research Department, Chi-Mei Medical Center, Tainan, Taiwan

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Willy Chou*

Department of Recreation and Health-Care Management & Institute of recreation

Industry Management, Chia Nan University of Pharmacy, Tainan, Taiwan

and Department of Physical Rehabilitation, Chi-Mei Medical Center, Taiwan

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Abstract

Many author-level metrics assume that all co-authors have an equal contribution to an article, which is unfair, unreasonable, and problematic. Numerous author-weighted schemes were proposed in the literature. We proposed the exponential author- weighted scheme for quantifying coauthors’ credits. By searching the PubMed database, we used the keywords “Scientometrics” [Journal], and downloaded 203 articles published since 2010. These citable articles were then individually searched for citations in Pubmed Central (PMC), and the citations were analyzed for individual authors and countries/areas. We observed that (1) the top three countries with highest x-index are Netherlands, Denmark, and Germany on the choropleth map,, (2) Netherlands is evident of the citation-oriented using the Kano model to display their research achievements, and (3) the author Nees Jan van Eck has the highest x-index in Scientometrics in the past. The article with PMID= 20585380 was cited by 124 articles onto the software VOSviewer used for bibliometric mapping. Choropleth maps and the Kano model incorporated with x-index and the AWS are suggested for application and development in the future. 

Keywords: Scientometrics, Kano model, x-index, Google Maps, the exponential author-weighted scheme, individual research achievement

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