Axiomatizing the Hirsch index: Quantity and quality disjoined

Miroiu, Adrian

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“…The h-index was introduced in bibliometric analysis by Hirsch [44] to illustrate the scientific output of a country, organization, researcher, etc. Therefore, the h-index covers both the quantity (number of publications) and the impact (number of citations) [45][46][47]. The impact factor for journals was obtained from the Journal Citation Reports (JCR) © Ranking: 2014 [48].…”

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Dengue research: a bibliometric analysis of worldwide and Arab publications during 1872–2015

Zyoud

2016

Virol J

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BackgroundDengue is an important emerging and re-emerging arboviral infection globally as a rapidly growing and widespread public health problem, with transmission occurring in more than 128 countries in Asia, Americas, southeast Africa, western Pacific, and eastern Mediterranean regions. Therefore, the aim of this study was to characterize and quantify the scientific output of dengue research in Arab countries relative to that worldwide by using a bibliometric analysis.MethodsThe standardized search approach based on the use of the the keyword “dengue” in the title, abstract, and keyword field was used to get research output related to dengue at a global level. All data related to dengue were collected from the past to December 31, 2015.ResultsA total of 19,581 dengue-related documents identified in the Scopus database. The results show that the study of dengue exhibits an overall upward trend from 1872 to 2015 with peak publications in 2014. The leading countries in dengue research were the USA (4,709; 24.05 %), India (1,942; 9.92 %), Brazil (1,530; 7.81 %), Thailand (1,260; 6.43 %), the UK (1,129; 5.77 %), and France (1,087; 5.55 %). Only 226 (1.16 % of the overall global research effort in the dengue field) articles were published from the Arab region. The total number of citations for all publications was 352,710, with an average of 18.0 citations per publication. Furthermore, the h-index for all extracted data related to dengue research was 186. Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) was the most productive country in Arab region with 102 documents representing 45.1 %. Furthermore, the h-index for all extracted data related to dengue research was 27. The USA was Arab’s most main cooperative partner (46, 20.4 %), followed by India (36, 15.9 %).ConclusionsThe amount of literature related to dengue research has considerably increased over the last decade. This bibliometric analysis has demonstrated the leading role that the USA, India, Brazil, Thailand, the UK, and France play in dengue research. The Arab world produced fewer publications related to dengue with lower quality than other world countries.

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Dengue research: a bibliometric analysis of worldwide and Arab publications during 1872–2015

Zyoud

2016

Virol J

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“…As shown above, this is at variance with the previous characterizations of f h (Hwang, 2013, Miroiu, 2013, Quesada, 2009,b, Woeginger, 2008a. Moreover our conditions do not suffer from the problems discussed in Section 1 since they never explicitly refer to the value of the index f .…”

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“…Among the huge literature (for review, see Alonso, Cabreziro, Herrera-Viedma, and Herrera, 2009, Egghe, 2010a, Norris and Oppenheim, 2010, Ruscio, Seaman, D'Oriano, Stremlo, and Mahalchik, 2012, Schreiber, Malesios, and Psarakis, 2011 on the h-index and its variants (Rousseau, García-Zoritad, and Sanz-Casadod, 2013, have seen this development as a "bubble"), there is already as sizeable literature on the axiomatic analysis of the h-index, most notably Woeginger (2008a,b), Deineko and Woeginger (2009), Quesada (2009Quesada ( , 2010Quesada ( , 2011a, Hwang (2013), Miroiu (2013), and Kongo (2014) 1 . The axiomatic literature on the g-index is less abundant but nevertheless exists: Woeginger (2008c, 2009), and Quesada (2011a.…”

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An axiomatic approach to bibliometric rankings and indices

Bouyssou

Marchant

2014

Journal of Informetrics

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This paper analyzes several well-known bibliometric indices using an axiomatic approach. We concentrate on indices aiming at capturing the global impact of a scientific output and do not investigate indices aiming at capturing an average impact. Hence, the indices that we study are designed to evaluate authors or groups of authors but not journals. The bibliometric indices that are studied include classic ones such as the number of highly cited papers as well as more recent ones such as the h-index and the g-index. We give conditions that characterize these indices, up to the multiplication by a positive constant. We also study the bibliometric rankings that are induced by these indices. Hence, we provide a general framework for the comparison of bibliometric rankings and indices.

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“…To the best of our knowledge, such observations are new and do not appear anywhere in the prior bibliometrics literature. This includes a rather large and impressive body of work [14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24] focusing on attempts to place the h-index on a solid axiomatic footing as the inevitable bibliometric index meeting certain internal logical self-consistency criteria.…”

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Axiomatizing the Hirsch index: Quantity and quality disjoined

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Dengue research: a bibliometric analysis of worldwide and Arab publications during 1872–2015

Dengue research: a bibliometric analysis of worldwide and Arab publications during 1872–2015

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