RaoProportions

A vector of proportions of citations to different disciplines of a single publication.
Since the elements of this vector are proportions, they need to be within the interval [0,1].

proportions

A positive semi-definite matrix that encodes the similarity between disciplines, as explained in Porter and Rafols (2009).
The dimensions of this matrix are n x n, being n the total number of disciplines.
The number of rows and the number columns of this matrix need to be equal to the length of <code>counts</code>.
The self-similarities (i.e. the diagonal elements) have to be 1.

similarity

This function calculates the Rao-Stirling diversity index of a single publication, based on its proportions of citations to different disciplines.

internal

A collection of functions to compute the Rao-Stirling diversity index
(Porter and Rafols, 2009) <DOI:10.1007/s11192-008-2197-2> and its extension to
acknowledge missing data (i.e.,	uncategorized references) by calculating its
interval of uncertainty using	mathematical optimization as proposed in Calatrava
et al. (2016) <DOI:10.1007/s11192-016-1842-4>.
The Rao-Stirling diversity index is a well-established bibliometric indicator
to measure the interdisciplinarity of scientific publications. Apart from the
obligatory dataset of publications with their respective references and	a
taxonomy of disciplines that categorizes references as well as a measure of
similarity between the disciplines, the Rao-Stirling diversity index requires
a complete categorization of all references of a publication into disciplines.
Thus, it fails for a incomplete categorization; in this case, the robust
extension has to be used, which encodes the uncertainty caused by missing
bibliographic data as an uncertainty interval.
Classification / ACM - 2012: Information systems ~ Similarity measures,
Theory of computation ~ Quadratic	programming, Applied computing ~ Digital
libraries and archives.

RaoProportions: Rao-Stirling diversity index based on proportions of cited disciplines.

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