A Rainbow at the skyline after the storm of indicators for Ranking scientists

Abstract

This article addresses the following problem: "Given a set of bibliometric indicators, selected in any algorithmic way, can we successively rank scientists into layers based on these indicators, such that the scientists in each layer outperform those of the lower layers according to (at least one) indicator?" We employed the skyline and iteratively applied it to scientists, thus designing the Rainbow Ranking indicator. We evaluated it against computer scientists and showed intuitive results.