The application of citation-based performance classes in institutional research assessment

The analysis of the high end of citation distributions represented by its tail provides important supplementary information on the citation profile of the unit under study. The proposed application of characteristic scores and scales provides four performance classes that are not sensitive to ties and ensures the seamless integration of measures of outstanding and even extreme performance into the standard tools of scientometric performance assessment. While the applicability of this method was already demonstrated for cross-national comparison (Glänzel, 2013b), the present study focuses on its application at the institutional level.status: publishe