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The Academic Midas Touch: A citation-based indicator of research excellence

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|Jul 2025

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Figure 1.

A schematic view of the empirical evaluation process.
A schematic view of the empirical evaluation process.

Figure 2.

The average AMT score in our sample as a function of x (time threshold) and y (citations threshold).
The average AMT score in our sample as a function of x (time threshold) and y (citations threshold).

Figure 3.

AMT score distribution.
AMT score distribution.

Figure 4.

The AMT score distributions of the award winning sample (in green) and the control group (in blue).
The AMT score distributions of the award winning sample (in green) and the control group (in blue).

Pair-wise Pearson correlations between the AMT and popular scientometrics_ The results are shown in brackets as the correlation coefficient and the p-value_

AMTH-indexi10-indexCitations
AMT10.44 (< 0.001)0.34 (< 0.001)0.58 (< 0.01)
H-index0.44 (< 0.001)10.81 (< 0.01)0.62 (< 0.001)
i10-index0.34 (< 0.001)0.81 (< 0.01)10.75 (< 0.001)
Citations0.58 (< 0.01)0.62 (< 0.001)0.75 (< 0.001)1

The relative difference (first row) and the statistical significance of the difference (second row) between the mean of the award-winning sample and the control group using the AMT and popular scientometrics (columns)_

TimeScientometricAMTH-indexi10-indexCitation count
Pre-prize yearRelative difference7.59%6.13%2.72%5.69%
Pre-prize yearp-value0.0140.0790.2880.147
2023Relative difference13.33%11.07%4.72%6.83%
2023p-value0.0420.0690.1150.163
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jdis-2025-0038 | Journal eISSN: 2543-683X | Journal ISSN: 2096-157X
Language: English
Page range: 78 - 91
Submitted on: Mar 3, 2025
Accepted on: Jun 17, 2025
Published on: Jul 10, 2025
Published by: Chinese Academy of Sciences, National Science Library
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 4 issues per year

© 2025 Ariel Rosenfeld, Ariel Alexi, Liel Mushiev, Teddy Lazebnik, published by Chinese Academy of Sciences, National Science Library
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