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xxdi

An R Package for Evaluating Scholarly Expertise Indices for Institutional Research Assessment

v1.3.1 · Jan 12, 2026 · GPL-3

Description

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.

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Dependencies Reverse dependencies agop dplyr ggplot2 Matrix tidyr xxdi

Version History

new 1.3.1 Mar 10, 2026
updated 1.3.1 ← 1.2.4 diff Jan 11, 2026
updated 1.2.4 ← 1.2.3 diff Jun 15, 2025
updated 1.2.3 ← 1.1.0 diff Aug 16, 2024
updated 1.1.0 ← 1.0.0 diff Jun 21, 2024
updated 1.0.0 ← 0.0.1 diff May 21, 2024
new 0.0.1 May 14, 2024