Behavior Mining in h-index Ranking Game

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Tagiew R., Ignatov D. I.

Academic rewards and honors are proven to correlate with h-index, although it was not the decision criterion for them till recent years. Once h-index becomes the rule-setting scientometric ranking measure in the zero-sum game for academic positions and research resources as suggested by its advocates, the rational behavior of competing academics is expected to converge towards its game- theoretic solution. This paper derives the game-theoretic solution, its evidence in scientometric data and discusses its consequences on the development of science. DBLP database of 07/2017 was used for mining. Additionally, the openly available scientometric datasets are introduced as a good alternative to commercial datasets of comparable size for public research in behavioral sciences. 

Keywords: социальные сети, инновационный менеджмент, social networks, experimental economics, innovation management, scientometrics, наукометрия, экспериментальная экономика, финансирование исследований, наука о данных, индекс Хирша, Behavior Mining, анализ поведения, h-index, behavioral game theory, data science, research funding, R&D budget

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Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Experimental Economics and Machine Learning (EEML 2017), Dresden, Germany, September 17-18, 2017

Vol. 1968. , Aachen: CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 2017.