A multi-criteria approach to the h-index

Brandão, Luana Carneiro; Mello, João Carlos Correia Baptista Soares de

doi:10.1016/j.ejor.2018.12.033

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“…2.2.1 Bibliometric indicators. The influence of researchers or papers has been mainly measured by citation counts, including total citations, h-index, and citations per publication PLOS ONE [1,3,37,[39][40][41][42][43]. However, the extent to which these indicators measure scholarly impact remains unclear.…”

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Measuring researchers’ potential scholarly impact with structural variations: Four types of researchers in information science (1979–2018)

2020

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We propose a method to measure the potential scholarly impact of researchers based on network structural variations they introduced to the underlying author co-citation network of their field. We applied the method to the information science field based on 91,978 papers published between 1979 and 2018 from the Web of Science. We divided the entire period into eight consecutive intervals and measured structural variation change rates (ΔM) of individual authors in corresponding author co-citation networks. Four types of researchers are identified in terms of temporal dynamics of their potential scholarly impact-1) Increasing, 2) Decreasing, 3) Sustained, and 4) Transient. The study contributes to the understanding of how researchers' scholarly impact might evolve in a broad context of the corresponding research community. Specifically, this study illustrated a crucial role played by structural variation metrics in measuring and explaining the potential scholarly impact of a researcher. This method based on the structural variation analysis offers a theoretical framework and a practical platform to analyze the potential scholarly impact of researchers and their specific contributions.

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“…Moreover, a researcher's scholarly impact is analyzed in terms of properties from co-authorship networks or co-citation networks (e.g., centrality) [2]. In addition, researchers have proposed integrating various indicators from multiple perspectives [3][4][5][6][7][8].…”

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Measuring researchers’ potential scholarly impact with structural variations: Four types of researchers in information science (1979–2018)

2020

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“…The number of publications and citations alone are not a coherent criteria family. Brandão (2019) proposed a third criterion for the h-index: The distribution of citations.…”

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HY-index: A new science-meter index

Youssef¹,

El-Bary²

2021

Int. j. adv. appl. sci.

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In academic societies, it is essential to measure the efficiency of the researchers, scientists, institutions, departments, and universities by using a standard method that depends on their publications and citations. This work is devoted to constructing a new index that can measure the quality of the publications of any source mentioned above. The main goal of this new index is to fix the shortcoming of the current indices, such as the well-known h-index. Thus, we assumed a new index that is very sensitive to any change in the total number of publications, the total number of citations, and citations of each publication. The new index is called HY-index, is more sensitive to any change in the publications or the citations. The suggested data of the two authors have been discussed with various situations by using HY-index. This index has been applied to the authors of the recent paper as a real study case by using their data from SCOPUS.

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“…Although such an idea seems interesting and promising, special concern shall be taken on the combination or aggregation scheme. Besides, a new criterion for the hindex is proposed in the form of the citation distribution among publications [43].…”

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