2013
DOI: 10.1016/j.wneu.2012.01.052
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Standardizing the Evaluation of Scientific and Academic Performance in Neurosurgery—Critical Review of the “h” Index and its Variants

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“…42 The use of citation metrics in neurosurgery is still in its infancy. 2 It began in 2009 when Lee et al demonstrated a positive correlation between academic rank and a small group of neurosurgeons from 30 programs. 33 Two 45 used Google Scholar to calculate the h-index for 1120 academic neurosurgeons in the US.…”
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“…42 The use of citation metrics in neurosurgery is still in its infancy. 2 It began in 2009 when Lee et al demonstrated a positive correlation between academic rank and a small group of neurosurgeons from 30 programs. 33 Two 45 used Google Scholar to calculate the h-index for 1120 academic neurosurgeons in the US.…”
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confidence: 99%
“…This simple yet intuitively descriptive index has generated much discussion in various fields in medicine, including anesthesiology, 36 hepatology, 39 otolaryngology, 47 radiation oncology, 40 radiology, 41 surgery, 50 urology, 9 and neurosurgery. 2,33,38,45 As of July 2013, Hirsch's landmark paper has been cited almost 3200 times (per Google Scholar).…”
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“…1,4,12,[14][15][16]24,27,31,32 In 2013, Kalra and Kestle that host accredited pediatric fellowship programs. They found that the publishing productivity of the pediatric neurosurgeons in these groups, measured using the h-and g-indices, was on par with the productivity of neurosurgeons in all academic departments.…”
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“…These bibliometric indices-the h-index in particular-have been widely applied to neurosurgery [17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25]. Using this database, we identified the 25 top-ranked North American pediatric neurosurgeons based on the manually calculated h-index from Scopus (Elsevier, www.scopus.com) [17].…”
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