The Invariant Method can be Manipulated

L.Á. Kóczy; M. Strobel

doi:10.1007/s11192-008-2134-4

The Invariant Method can be Manipulated

L.Á. Kóczy^*
, M. Strobel

^*Corresponding author for this work

Microeconomics & Public Economics

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Abstract

We show that the invariant method [pinski & narin, 1976], recently axiomatised by palacios-huerta & volij [2004], and used to quality-rank academic journals is subject to manipulation: a journal can boost its performance by making additional citations to other journals.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	291-293
Number of pages	3
Journal	Scientometrics
Volume	81
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-008-2134-4
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 2009

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