p-Index Calculator
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Welcome to the p-Index calculator.

The p-Index is a scientometric indicator of a scholar’s propensity for thought leadership, first proposed and tested by Pham, Wu, and Wang (2024). The index is the average citation percentile rank of a researcher’s published articles relative to other articles published the same year by the same journals. It reflects the tendency of a researcher’s articles to relatively outperform, in terms of citations, other articles published in the same journals as those where this researcher published his or her work, controlling for year of publication and thereby for the effects of seniority.

The measure is a) simple and easy to compute, b) objective and transparent, c) not easy to “game,” d) not overly dependent on a single publication, and e) suitable for comparisons of scholars of different seniority. Prior tests have shown the index to be f) internally consistent and g) predictive of scholarly recognition and reputation when used in combination with the scholar’s number of top publications.

Reference: Pham, Michel Tuan, Alisa Yinghao Wu, and Danqi Wang (2024), “Benchmarking Scholarship in Consumer Research: The p-Index of Thought Leadership,” Journal of Consumer Research, Vol. 51 (1), 191-203.

How to use the p-Index calculator.

This automated p-Index calculator is based on up-to-date records from the Web of Science (WoS) database. Please note that the calculator is limited by a # of daily API calls; this limit resets daily. To use it, proceed as follows:

  1. Search for the researcher’s publication record on WoS. You may need to add the researcher’s middle name or initials to identify the relevant record. To do so, use the following format: First Name: "Thomas R. L." ; Last Name: "Jackson". A list of matching researcher records will be retrieved.
  2. Select the researcher profile of interest. The researcher’s list of publications (as recorded by WoS) will then be displayed.
  3. From the displayed list of publications, unselect the ones that are not relevant for your analysis (e.g., duplicated records, correction notices, editorial notes, abstracts of conference proceedings).
  4. Hit “Calculate.” Depending on the researcher’s number of publications and the journals involved, the computations may take 2 – 3 minutes.

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Disclaimer: The deep citation calculation fetches thousands of baseline reference records and may take several minutes to complete.