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dynamic discounted cumulated impact (sharp decay)

The dynamic discounted cumulated impact index (Järvelin and Pearson 2008; Ahlfren and Järvelin 2010) is an addendum to the discounted cumulated impact (sharp decay) which cumulates across different time intervals, rather than a single fixed interval. Formally, it is a vector defined as:

$$\text{dDCI}_Y\left[j\right]=DCI_j\left[j\right] ,$$

where DCIj[j] is essentially the last item in the DCI vector for time interval j. When calculated for a career, where each subsequent interval is the length of the career up to that point, the values calculated for earlier career points are identical those same intervals for later career points, thus we just report the final value for each year, with all values up to that year actually representing the full dDCI vector.

Because DCI can be calculated with varying degrees of citation decay, dDCI is also dependent on this same decay. This version is calculated from the DCI index with a sharp decay of b = 2.

History

YeardDCI (b = 2)
19972.0000
199816.0000
199944.0000
200084.2619
2001141.8330
2002239.5274
2003360.6713
2004569.4359
2005819.0455
20061154.2261
20071472.6257
20081774.1842
20092047.6094
20102399.8348
20112818.6100
20123198.3355
20133597.6835
20143883.5568
20154152.5820
20164381.8463
20174533.5357
20184689.8251
20194838.9957
20205020.2644
20215246.5520
20225452.6129
20235571.4310
20245680.6375
20255491.5681

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