In order to evaluate the quality of the scientific research, we introduce a
new family of scientific performance measures, called Scientific Research
Measures (SRM). Our proposal originates from the more recent developments in
the theory of risk measures and is an attempt to resolve the many problems of
the existing bibliometric indices.
We propose a generalization of the classical notion of the $V@R_{\lambda}$
that takes into account not only the probability of the losses, but the balance
between such probability and the amount of the loss. This is obtained by
defining a new class of law invariant risk measures based on an appropriate
family of acceptance sets. The $V@R_{\lambda}$ and other known law invariant
risk measures turn out to be special cases of our proposal.