xxdi: An R Package for Evaluating Scholarly Expertise Indices for
Institutional Research 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. Lathabai, H.H., Nandy, A., and Singh, V.K. (2021) <doi:10.1007/s11192-021-04188-3>. Nandy, A., Lathabai, H.H., and Singh, V.K. (2023) <doi:10.5281/zenodo.8305585>. This package provides the h-, g-, x-, xd-indices, and their variants for use with standard format of Web of Science (WoS) scrapped datasets.
| Version: |
1.3.1 |
| Depends: |
R (≥ 4.4.2.0) |
| Imports: |
agop (≥ 0.2.4), dplyr (≥ 1.1.4), ggplot2 (≥ 3.5.0), Matrix (≥ 1.6.1.1), stats (≥ 4.3.3), tidyr (≥ 1.3.1) |
| Published: |
2026-01-12 |
| DOI: |
10.32614/CRAN.package.xxdi |
| Author: |
Nilabhra Rohan Das
 [cre, aut],
Abhirup Nandy
[aut] |
| Maintainer: |
Nilabhra Rohan Das <nr.das at yahoo.com> |
| License: |
GPL-3 |
| NeedsCompilation: |
no |
| Materials: |
NEWS |
| CRAN checks: |
xxdi results |
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