Comparative rank assessment of journal articles
Two scientometric impact indicators, Percentage Rank Position (PRP) and Relative Elite Rate (RER) are introduced. The PRP-index relates the ordinal position of the article ranked by citations to the total number of articles in the publishing journal. The RER-index relates the number of citations to the article to the mean citation frequency of the most cited papers in the publishing journal. The indices are based on the elite set concept, i.e. information in the relatively highly cited papers may exert greater impact on science. The indicators may be applied comparatively across fields.
percentage rank position elite set evaluation rank by citation rate normalization by field normalization by size