Eigenvalue productivity: Measurement of individual contributions in teams

PLoS One. 2022 Sep 15;17(9):e0273623. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0273623. eCollection 2022.

Abstract

While the output of a team is evident, the productivity of each team member is typically not readily identifiable. In this paper we consider the problem of measuring the productivity of team members. We propose a new concept of coworker productivity, which we refer to as eigenvalue productivity (EVP). We demonstrate the existence and uniqueness of our concept and show that it possesses several desirable properties. Also, we suggest a procedure for specifying the required productivity matrix of a team, and illustrate the operational practicability of EVP by means of three examples representing different types of available data.

MeSH terms

  • Efficiency*

Grants and funding

The author(s) received no specific funding for this work.