Rational (successive) h-indices: An application to economics in the Republic of Ireland

Ruane, Frances; Tol, Richard S.J.

doi:10.1007/s11192-007-1869-7

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“…Ideas of extending the h-index to the continuous (real) case already exist in the recent literature; e.g. see work by Ruane and Tol (2008), with rational h-index for group of researchers, where interpolation is used, as well as work by Chai, Hua, Rousseau and Wan (2008), Guns and Rousseau (2009), where rational variants are also provided.…”

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Hirsch index rankings require scaling and higher moment

Bletsas

Sahalos

2009

J. Am. Soc. Inf. Sci.

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Abstract:Simple bibliometric indicators, such as average number of citations per publication per researcher, or the recently-proposed Hirsch index (h-index), are nowadays tracked by online repositories including Web-of-Science (WOS) and often affect critical decision making. This work proposes appropriate scaling of the h-index, based on its probability distribution which is calculated for any underlying citation distribution. The proposed approach outperforms existing index estimation models which have focused on the expected value only (i.e. first moment).Furthermore, it is shown that average number of citations per publication per scientific field, total number of publications per researcher, as well as researcher's h-index measured value, expected value and standard deviation constitute the minimum information required for meaningful h-index ranking campaigns; otherwise contradicting ranking results emerge. This work may potentially shed light to (current or future) large-scale, h-index-based bibliometric evaluations.

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Section: Probability Distribution Of H-index or All-moments Methods (Mmentioning

confidence: 99%

Hirsch index rankings require scaling and higher moment

Bletsas

Sahalos

2009

J. Am. Soc. Inf. Sci.

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“…However, the computations needed to obtain this measure and the difficulty of obtaining accurate data from bibliographic databases even for the less cited works of the author may make it difficult to implement. Following a similar but simpler approach than to the tapered h-index, Ruane and Tol (2008) presented the rational h-index h rat -index, which has the advantage of increasing in smaller steps than the standard h-index (it could provide more granularity to an evaluation process). This index is defined as:…”

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h-Index: A review focused in its variants, computation and standardization for different scientific fields

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Journal of Informetrics

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The h-index and some related bibliometric indices have received a lot of attention from the scientific community in the last few years due to some of their good properties (easiness of computation, balance between quantity of publications and their impact and so on). Many different indicators have been developed in order to extend and overcome the drawbacks of the original Hirsch proposal. In this contribution we present a comprehensive review on the h-index and related indicators field. From the initial h-index proposal we study their main advantages, drawbacks and the main applications that we can find in the literature. A description of many of the h-related indices that have been developed along with their main characteristics and some of the works that analyze and compare them are presented. We also review the most up to date standardization studies that allow a fair comparison by means of the h-index among scientists from different research areas and finally, some works that analyze the computation of the h-index and related indices by using different citation databases (ISI Citation Indexes, Google Scholar and Scopus) are introduced.

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“…Se optó por el FI en lugar del índice H (Hirsch, 2005), dado que permite hacer una evaluación de la trayectoria a lo largo del tiempo de la revista, así como por el cuestionamiento que se ha planteado acerca de la capacidad predictiva (Hirsch, 2007;Lehmann, Jackson & Lautrup, 2006) y discriminativa (Ruane & Tol, 2008) de este último índice.…”

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25 Años de Psykhe: Un Análisis Bibliométrico

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El objetivo del presente estudio fue realizar un análisis bibliométrico de Psykhe (1992de Psykhe ( -2016, considerando algunos elementos históricos que contextualizan su trayectoria, para describir sus principales características y evaluar su evolución cronológica. Para ello se construyó una base de datos con la totalidad de publicaciones de la revista (25 volúmenes y 48 números), con una muestra total de 531 artículos científicos. Se aplicaron indicadores bibliométricos, tales como los índices de productividad (Lotka), de colaboración (Subramanyam y Lawani), de temáticas y metodologías utilizadas, así como indicadores de impacto que permiten realizar comparaciones con otras revistas de referencia en la región. Los resultados evidencian que la primera autoría de los artículos correspondió a una mayor proporción de mujeres. Se vislumbra una clara tendencia al alza del número de artículos a mediados de los años 2000, el área temática con mayor número de artículos es psicología educacional y los índices de colaboración han mejorado sustancialmente hacia la actualidad. El análisis permite visualizar algunas de las fortalezas y desafíos de Psykhe. Sería interesante en futuros estudios realizar comparaciones con otras revistas de similares características. Palabras clave: bibliometría, indicadores, productividad científica, revista, psicologíaThe aim of this study was to carry out a bibliometric analysis of Psykhe , taking into consideration some historical elements that contextualize the history of the publication, to describe its main characteristics and evaluate its chronological evolution. In order to do this, a database of the entire journal (25 volumes and 48 issues) was constructed with a total sample of 531 scientific articles. Bibliometric indicators were applied, covering productivity (Lotka), collaboration (Subramanyam and Lawani), subject matters and methodologies indexes, as well as impact indicators, all of which made it possible to compare Psykhe with other reference journals in the region. Results show that most first authors were women. There is a clear upward trend in the number of articles published at the mid2000s, the subject area with the most articles published is educational psychology, and collaboration rates have improved substantially up to now. The analysis conducted sheds light on some of Psykhe's strengths and challenges. It would be interesting to perform comparisons with other journals of similar characteristics in future studies.Keywords: bibliometrics, indicators, scientific productivity, journal, psychology Las revistas científicas nacen del interés y necesidad de comunicar los resultados de investigación y generar espacios de discusión entre académicos. No obstante, hoy las revistas se han convertido en el principal y más confiable canal de comunicación de la investigación, por cuanto las mismas suponen una evaluación rigurosa y exhaustiva de los contenidos por parte de la comunidad científica. Adicionalmente, estas experimentan como nunca antes procesos de transformación, tanto en ...

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Rational (successive) h-indices: An application to economics in the Republic of Ireland

Cited by 106 publications

References 2 publications

Hirsch index rankings require scaling and higher moment

Hirsch index rankings require scaling and higher moment

h-Index: A review focused in its variants, computation and standardization for different scientific fields

25 Años de Psykhe: Un Análisis Bibliométrico

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