An R Package for Evaluating Expertise Indices for Research Strength Assessment

Institutional performance assessment remains a key challenge to a multitude of stakeholders. Existing indicators such as h-type indicators, g-type indicators, and many others do not reflect expertise of institutions that defines their research portfolio. The package offers functionality to compute and visualise two novel indices: the x-index and the xd-index. The x-index evaluates an institution's scholarly expertise within a specific discipline or field, while the xd-index provides a broader assessment of overall scholarly expertise considering an institution's publication pattern and strengths across coarse thematic areas. These indices offer a nuanced understanding of institutional research capabilities, aiding stakeholders in research management and resource allocation decisions. For further details, see Lathabai, H.H., Nandy, A., and Singh, V.K. (2021) , and Nandy, A., Lathabai, H.H., and Singh, V.K. (2023) . This package provides wrapper functions for computing these exertise indices and their variants, for use with the standard output format of the Web of Science database.


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install.packages("xxdi")

1.26.8 by Nilabhra R Das, a month ago


Browse source code at https://github.com/cran/xxdi


Authors: Nilabhra R Das [cre, aut] (ORCID: , Abhirup Nandy [aut]


Documentation:   PDF Manual  


GPL-3 license


Imports agop, checkmate, dplyr, ggplot2, stats, tidyr


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