Researchers from Birkbeck’s Department of Computer Science and Information Systems have proposed an innovative new index to measure the impact of research. The team – Professor Mark Levene, Professor Trevor Fenner and Dr. Martyn Harris from Birkbeck and Professor Judit Bar-Ilan from the department of Information Science at Bar-Ilan University – has identified the χ-index (chi-index) as a more informative way to indicate academic performance.
Image courtesy of interviewee. November 4, 2019