A modified nature publishing index via shannon entropy

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Original languageEnglish
Article number640924
Journal / PublicationDiscrete Dynamics in Nature and Society
Volume2015
Publication statusPublished - 2015

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This paper develops a Shannon Entropy approach based only on the number of papers published to propose scientific institution rankings. A simple and efficient approach with weight restrictions is employed to derive the score under specific preferences. The importance degrees for each preference are determined using the concept of Shannon Entropy. Finally, a weighted linear combination of different lexicographic preferences with subjective perceptions between the corrected count and the number of articles criteria is proposed. An application to Asia-Pacific ranking of the Nature Publishing Index is to illustrate the effectiveness of our proposed method.

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A modified nature publishing index via shannon entropy. / Fu, Yelin; Wang, Ming; Lai, Kin Keung.
In: Discrete Dynamics in Nature and Society, Vol. 2015, 640924, 2015.

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