Pacififa: a New Measure for Evaluating Authors' Productivity and Activity over Time

In this paper, we introduce a new measure for evaluating and characterizing the scientific output of a researcher over time. The PACIFIFA is a measure that takes different attributes into account in the process of evaluating the productivity, quality of research, and research activity of a researcher. This measure takes into account the number of the publications of the author, the sum of the citations of the publications, the H-Index of co-authors, the average impact factor of the host journals, the average impact factor of the research field of the author, and the time interval between the first and the last publication of the author. The advantage of this measure is that it gives an overview about the author's productivity, quality of publications, publications frequency over time, and the quality of the researcher(s) he/she worked with. In comparison to other measures, our measure showed a higher accuracy and reliability.