Abstract
A novel scientometric index, named ‘author-suggested, weighted citation index’ (Aw-index) is proposed to indicate the scientific contribution of any individual researcher. For calculation of the Aw-index, it is suggested that during the submission of a scholarly article, the corresponding author would provide a statement, agreed upon by all the authors, containing weightage factors against each author of the article. The author who contributed more to the article would secure a higher weightage factor. The summation of the weightage factors of all the authors of an article should be unity. The citation points a researcher receives from a scholarly publication is the product of his/her weightage factor for that article and the total number of citations of the article. The Aw-index of any individual researcher is the summation of the citation points he/she receives for all his/her publications as an author. The Aw-index provides the opportunity to the group of authors of a multi-authored article to determine the quantum of partial citations to be attributed to each of them. Through an illustrative example, a comparison of the proposed index with the major scientometric indexes is presented to highlight the advantages of the Aw-index.
Highlights
The scientific contribution made by a researcher is often approximated in terms of the impact of his/her scholarly publications
The impact of the scholarly publications of a researcher is related to the citations of his/her publications quantified in terms of different scientometric indexes such as cumulative citations, h-index [9,10], i10-index [11], etc
The concept of Aw -index is unique as it determines the weighted partial citations for each author of a multi-authored article based on the suggestion of the group of authors of the article
Summary
The scientific contribution made by a researcher is often approximated in terms of the impact of his/her scholarly publications. The impact of the scholarly publications of a researcher is related to the citations of his/her publications quantified in terms of different scientometric indexes such as cumulative citations, h-index [9,10], i10-index [11], etc. The i10-index of a researcher indicates the number of publications authored by him/her with at least 10 citations. As these indexes do not adjust their values for multiauthored publications, sometimes they may put forward a misleading picture. The scientific community is still divided on the methodology to be adopted to quantify the proportion of credit to be attributed to a particular author of a multi-authored scholarly article
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