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How well does a university perform in comparison with its peers? The use of odds, and odds ratios, for the comparison of institutional citation impact using the L eiden R ankings
Author(s) -
Bornmann Lutz,
Mutz Rüdiger
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
journal of the association for information science and technology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.903
H-Index - 145
eISSN - 2330-1643
pISSN - 2330-1635
DOI - 10.1002/asi.23451
Subject(s) - odds , odds ratio , ranking (information retrieval) , citation , competitor analysis , statistics , demography , psychology , mathematics , computer science , sociology , information retrieval , economics , logistic regression , library science , management
This study presents the calculation of odds, and odds ratios, for the comparison of the citation impact of universities in the L eiden R anking. Odds and odds ratios can be used to measure the performance difference between a selected university and competing institutions, or the average of selected competitors, in a relatively simple but clear way.