Universal Research Index: An Inclusive Metric to Quantify Scientific Research Output

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Keshavarzfathi M^{1, 2} ; Yazdanpanah N^{1, 2} ; Kolahchi S² ; Ziaei H² ; Darmstadt GL^{2, 3} ; Dorigo T^{2, 4} ; Dochy F^{2, 5} ; Levin L^{2, 6} ; Thongboonkerd V^{2, 7} ; Ogino S^{2, 8, 9, 10} ; Chen WH^{11, 12, 13} ; Perc M^{2, 14, 15, 16, 17} ; Tremblay MS^{2, 18} ; Olusanya BO^{2, 19} Show All Authors

Keshavarzfathi M^{1, 2}
Yazdanpanah N^{1, 2}
Kolahchi S²
Ziaei H²
Darmstadt GL^{2, 3}
Dorigo T^{2, 4}
Dochy F^{2, 5}
Levin L^{2, 6}
Thongboonkerd V^{2, 7}
Ogino S^{2, 8, 9, 10}
Chen WH^{11, 12, 13}
Perc M^{2, 14, 15, 16, 17}
Tremblay MS^{2, 18}
Olusanya BO^{2, 19}
Rao IM^{2, 20, 21}
Hatziargyriou N^{2, 22}
Moradilakeh M^{2, 23}
Bella F^{2, 24}
Rosivall L^{2, 25}
Gandomi AH^{2, 26, 58}
Sorooshian A²⁷
Gupta M^{2, 28}
Gal C^{2, 29}
Lozano AM^{2, 30, 31}
Weaver C^{2, 32}
Tanzer M^{2, 33}
Poggi A^{2, 34}
Sepanlou SG^{2, 35}
Weiskirchen R^{2, 36}
Jambrak AR^{2, 37}
Torres PJ^{2, 38}
Capanoglu E^{2, 39}
Barba FJ^{2, 40}
Ernest CKJ^{2, 28}
Sigman M^{2, 41, 42}
Pluchino S^{2, 43}
Gharehpetian GB^{2, 44}
Fereshtehnejad SM^{2, 45, 46}
Yang MH^{2, 47}
Thomas S^{2, 48}
Cai W^{2, 49}
Comini E^{2, 50}
Scolding NJ^{2, 51, 52}
Myles PS^{2, 53}
Nieto JJ^{2, 54}
Perry G⁵⁵
Sedikides C^{2, 56}
Rezaei N^{1, 2, 57}

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1. School of Medicine, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
2. Universal Scientific Education and Research Network (USERN), Iran
3. Department of Pediatrics, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, United States
4. Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN), Via Francesco Marzolo, Sezione di Padova, Italy
5. High Impact Learning Academy, Learning and Development Department, Brussels, Belgium
6. Center for Marine Biodiversity and Conservation, Integrative Oceanography Division, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, San Diego, CA, United States
7. Medical Proteomics Unit, Office for Research and Development, Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand
8. Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, United States
9. Program in MPE Molecular Pathological Epidemiology, Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States
10. Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, United States
11. Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan
12. Research Center for Smart Sustainable Circular Economy, Tunghai University, Taichung, 407, Taiwan
13. Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Chin-Yi University of Technology, Taichung, 411, Taiwan
14. Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, University of Maribor, Maribor, Slovenia
15. Department of Medical Research, China Medical University Hospital, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan
16. Complexity Science Hub Vienna, Vienna, Austria
17. Alma Mater Europaea, Maribor, Slovenia
18. Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario Research Institute, Department of Pediatrics, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada
19. Centre for Healthy Start Initiative, Ikoyi, Lagos, Nigeria
20. Alliance of Bioversity International, International Center for Tropical Agriculture, Cali, Colombia
21. International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (ICIPE), Nairobi, Kenya
22. School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Athens, Greece
23. Preventive Medicine and Public Health Research Center, Psychosocial Health Research Institute, School of Medicine, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
24. Department of Applied Science and Technology, Politecnico di Torino, Corso Duca degli Abruzzi, Turin, Italy
25. Institute of Translational Medicine, International Nephrology Research and Training Center, Faculty of Medicine, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary
26. Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology, University of Technology Sydney, 2007, NSW, Australia
27. Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States
28. Department of Mechanical Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore
29. Department of Mathematics, Florida International University, Miami, FL, United States
30. Division of Neurosurgery, Toronto Western Hospital, University Health Network, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
31. Krembil Research Institute, Toronto, ON, Canada
32. Department of Exercise and Nutritional Sciences, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA, United States
33. Division of Orthopedic Surgery, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada
34. Molecular Oncology and Angiogenesis Unit, IRCCS Ospedale Policlinico San Martino, Genoa, Italy
35. Digestive Disease Research Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
36. Institute of Molecular Pathobiochemistry, Experimental Gene Therapy and Clinical Chemistry (IFMPEGKC), RWTH University Hospital Aachen, Aachen, Germany
37. Faculty of Food Technology and Biotechnology, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
38. Departamento de Matema Ì�tica Aplicada, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Granada, Granada, Spain
39. Department of Food Engineering, Faculty of Chemical and Metallurgical Engineering, Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey
40. Nutrition and Food Science Area, Preventive Medicine and Public Health, Food Science, Toxicology and Forensic Medicine Department, Faculty of Pharmacy, Universitat de Valencia, Valencia, Spain
41. Laboratorio de Neurociencia, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella (UTDT), Buenos Aires, Argentina
42. Facultad de Lenguas y Educacion, Universidad Nebrija, Madrid, Spain
43. Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
44. Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran
45. Division of Neurology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada
46. Division of Clinical Geriatrics, NVS Department, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
47. Institute of Clinical Medicine, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taipei, Taiwan
48. School of Energy Materials, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kerala, Kottayam, 686 560, India
49. Centre for Southern Hemisphere Oceans Research (CSHOR), CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere, Hobart, TAS, Australia
50. SENSOR Laboratory, University of Brescia, Brescia, Italy
51. Clinical Neurosciences, Translational Health Sciences, Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom
52. Department of Neurology, North Bristol NHS Trust, Southmead Hospital, Bristol, United Kingdom
53. Alfred hospital and Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
54. CITMAga, University of Santiago de Compostela, Galicia, Spain
55. Department of Neuroscience, Developmental and Regenerative Biology, University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, United States
56. School of Psychology, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom
57. Research Center for Immunodeficiencies, Children's Medical Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
58. University Research and Innovation Center (EKIK), Obuda University, Budapest, 1034, Hungary

Source: Journal of Academic Librarianship Published:2023

Abstract

Scientometrics and bibliometrics, the subfields of library and information science, deal with the quantity and quality of research outputs. Currently, various scientometric indices are being used to quantify and compare research outputs. The most widely known is the h-index. However, this index and its derivatives suffer from dependence on the mere count of a scholar's highly cited publications. To remedy this deficiency, we developed a novel index, the Universal Research Index (UR-Index) (https://usern2021.github.io/UR-Index/) by which every single publication has its own impact on the total score. We developed this index by surveying international top 1 % cited scientists in various disciplines and included additional component variables such as publication type, leading role of a scholar, co-author count, and source metrics to this scientometric index. We acknowledge that unconscious biases built into the component variables included in the UR-Index might put research from specific groups at a disadvantage, thus continued efforts to improve equitable scholarly impact in science and academia are encouraged. © 2023 Elsevier Inc.

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MLA	Keshavarzfathi M, et al.. "Universal Research Index: An Inclusive Metric to Quantify Scientific Research Output." Journal of Academic Librarianship, vol. 49, no. 3, 2023, pp. -.
APA	Keshavarzfathi M, Yazdanpanah N, Kolahchi S, Ziaei H, Darmstadt GL, Dorigo T, Dochy F, Levin L, Thongboonkerd V, Ogino S, Chen WH, Perc M, Tremblay MS, Olusanya BO, Rao IM, Hatziargyriou N, Moradilakeh M, Bella F, Rosivall L, ... Rezaei N (2023). Universal Research Index: An Inclusive Metric to Quantify Scientific Research Output. Journal of Academic Librarianship, 49(3), -.
Chicago	Keshavarzfathi M, Yazdanpanah N, Kolahchi S, Ziaei H, Darmstadt GL, Dorigo T, Dochy F, et al.. "Universal Research Index: An Inclusive Metric to Quantify Scientific Research Output." Journal of Academic Librarianship 49, no. 3 (2023): -.
Harvard	Keshavarzfathi M et al. (2023) 'Universal Research Index: An Inclusive Metric to Quantify Scientific Research Output', Journal of Academic Librarianship, 49(3), pp. -.
Vancouver	Keshavarzfathi M, Yazdanpanah N, Kolahchi S, Ziaei H, Darmstadt GL, Dorigo T, et al.. Universal Research Index: An Inclusive Metric to Quantify Scientific Research Output. Journal of Academic Librarianship. 2023;49(3):-.
BibTex	@article{ author = {Keshavarzfathi M and Yazdanpanah N and Kolahchi S and Ziaei H and Darmstadt GL and Dorigo T and Dochy F and Levin L and Thongboonkerd V and Ogino S and Chen WH and Perc M and Tremblay MS and Olusanya BO and Rao IM and Hatziargyriou N and Moradilakeh M and Bella F and Rosivall L and Gandomi AH and Sorooshian A and Gupta M and Gal C and Lozano AM and Weaver C and Tanzer M and Poggi A and Sepanlou SG and Weiskirchen R and Jambrak AR and Torres PJ and Capanoglu E and Barba FJ and Ernest CKJ and Sigman M and Pluchino S and Gharehpetian GB and Fereshtehnejad SM and Yang MH and Thomas S and Cai W and Comini E and Scolding NJ and Myles PS and Nieto JJ and Perry G and Sedikides C and Rezaei N}, title = {Universal Research Index: An Inclusive Metric to Quantify Scientific Research Output}, journal = {Journal of Academic Librarianship}, volume = {49}, number = {3}, pages = {-}, year = {2023} }
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