K-INDEX

• Aim: Use K-index as a predictor of who will be awarded with a scientific prize.
• Testbed: gather most of the Highly Cited Researchers in Physics from Clarivate and try to predict the Nobel Laureates. The use of K-index is not limited to Nobel Laureates prediction. We compare the results with the standard scientometric index used by Web of Science, the h-index (Hirsch index).
• Manuscript: arXiv:1910.02369, 2019.

Research Team

• Osame Kinouchi;
• Adriano J. Holanda;
• George C. Cardoso.

Reproducibility

The results can be totally reproduced by performing the following instructions:

Automatic

To reproduce the experiment, clone the repository, install make, cweb and a C compiler and run

$ make

Manual

The following steps are less automated but they have less dependencies:

• Download the data using the link;
• Unzip the downloaded data;
• Download the program binary Linux-x86_64 or Windows-x86_64 according to the platform;
• Run the program in the same directory where the data were extracted.

Documentation

• Program documentation.

Contributor

• Luis Fernando Castro - fixes some grammatical and spelling errors.

References

• J. E. Hirsch. "An index to quantify an individual's scientific research output," PNAS 102 (15) 16569-16572, 2005. [Wikpedia entry]
• O. Kinouchi, L. D. H. Soares, G. C. Cardoso. "A simple impact index for scientific innovation and recognition," arXiv:1609.05273v2, 2017.