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What is PiP-AUC?

PiP-AUC (Paper-in-Percentile Area Under Curve) combines citation quality with publication productivity into a single 0-to-1 score. Each paper is ranked against all papers published in the same year, and an author's publication count is compared to faculty at similar career stages.

How are percentiles calculated?

All metrics (h-index, citations, i10-index, publication count) are percentile-ranked against ~15,000 faculty at top US universities who started publishing in the same year. This age-aware normalization prevents bias toward senior researchers.

How often is data updated?

Author data is re-crawled from Google Scholar approximately every 90 days. Distribution tables (population percentiles) are refreshed quarterly.

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For questions or issues, contact Panos Ipeirotis or open an issue on GitHub.