Knowledge on the move: Reconstructing scientists' mobility network
- Giacomo Vaccario
- Network theory , Data science , Science of science , Agent based models , Science communication
- February 21, 2025

Citation counts for papers from different fields can't be compared directly because they adopt different citation practices. Researchers have proposed various procedures to suppress these biases, but a new statistical framework shows that existing indicators, including the relative citation count, are still biased by paper field and age. A new normalization procedure motivated by the z-score produces much less biased rankings when applied to citation count and PageRank score. The problem of achieving an ideal unbiased ranking of publications remains open.
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