RaoCounts {robustrao} | R Documentation |
Rao-Stirling diversity index based on the counts of cited disciplines.
Description
This function calculates the Rao-Stirling diversity index of a single publication, based on the count of citations to different disciplines.
Note that this function returns the correct result if a vector of proportions is supplied as input. Since a normalization by (approximately) 1.0 is performed, the result is identical to the result of the function RaoProportions
up to numerical precision.
Usage
RaoCounts(counts, similarity)
Arguments
counts |
A vector of counts of citations to different disciplines of a single publication. The length of the vector should be equal to the total number of disciplines. |
similarity |
A positive semi-definite matrix that encodes the similarity between disciplines, as explained in Porter and Rafols (2009).
The dimensions of this matrix are n x n, being n the total number of disciplines.
The number of rows and the number columns of this matrix need to be equal to the length of |
Value
The Rao-Stirling diversity index of a publication.
References
Porter, A. and Rafols, I. (2009) Is science becoming more interdisciplinary? Measuring and mapping six research fields over time. Scientometrics, Vol. 81, No. 3 (719-745). DOI:10.1007/s11192-008-2197-2