I propose an overall productivity index for actors in science and technology like authors, inventors, journals, assignees, etc., namely the ψ-index. An actor has a ψ-index value of ψ if ψ is the unique largest number such that citations earned by his/her/its ψ top-cited papers/patents averages at least to (ψ + 1)/2. A major limitation of the h-index that led to the development of g-index is the motivation for ψ-index too. h-index ignores the effect of massive citations yielded by papers/patents in the so-called h-core. Though g-index captures the effect of massive citations by top-cited papers/patents, the ability of such massive citations to offset the less cited papers/patents down the list is not substantially reflected. ψ-index, on the other hand, reflects to the greatest possible extent, such an ability. The existence of three different kinds of actor profiles and important aspects related to each profile type is discussed. A framework for determination of the type of profile and the aspects associated with that profile is developed using ψ and g indices. Application of the framework is demonstrated using the scholarly profiles of selected prominent contributors from two research fields—‘Network science’ and ‘Scientometrics’.

我为作家，发明家，期刊，受让人等科学技术人员提出了一个总体生产率指数，即ψ指数。如果ψ是唯一的最大数字，则演员的ψ索引值为ψ，这样他/她/他的ψ最高被引用论文/专利所获得的引用平均至少为（ψ  + 1）/ 2。导致g指数发展的h指数的主要局限性也是ψ指数的动机。h- index忽略了所谓的h - core中论文/专利所产生的大量引用的影响。虽然克-index捕获了被引次数最多的论文/专利被大量引用的效果，这种大量引用可以抵消列表中较少引用的论文/专利的能力没有得到实质性体现。另一方面，ψ指数最大程度地反映了这种能力。讨论了三种不同类型的演员简介的存在以及与每种简介类型相关的重要方面。使用ψ和g索引开发了确定轮廓类型和与该轮廓相关的方面的框架。该框架的应用通过“网络科学”和“科学计量学”这两个研究领域的杰出贡献者的学术研究来证明。