A network embedding-based scholar assessment indicator considering four facets: Research topic, author credit allocation, field-normalized journal impact, and published time

Scholar performance assessment plays an important role in reward evaluation, funding allocation, and promotion and recruitment decisions. However, raw publication counts and raw citation count-based scholar performance assessment indicators, such as H-index or author citations, have shortcomings; for example, they ignore the impact of different citation patterns under different research topics, leading to authorship credit inflation due to full...