Using the h‐index to rank influential information scientistss

Abstract

The authors apply a new bibliometric measure, the h-index (Hirsch, 2005), to the literature of information science. Faculty rankings based on raw citation counts are compared with those based on h-counts. There is a strong positive correlation between the two sets of rankings. It is shown how the h-index can be used to express the broad impact of a scholar's research output over time in more nuanced fashion than straight citation counts.

Journal impact factors,h indices, and citation analyses in toxicology

“…As is evident from the calculation of the h index, a scientist's h index can never decrease, and an increase is expected as new (frequently cited) papers are published, as "sleeping beauties" are discovered and cited, and as the scientist's papers attract citations [9,10]. The idea of ranking scientists within a given field by a single number and the advantages that the h index has over other 35 articles cited Ͼ100 times citation-based indices (for example, ranking by total number of papers, total number of citations, or the number of citations per paper) quickly attracted the attention of major scientific journals, including Science and Nature [11,12].…”

“…The idea of ranking scientists within a given field by a single number and the advantages that the h index has over other 35 articles cited Ͼ100 times citation-based indices (for example, ranking by total number of papers, total number of citations, or the number of citations per paper) quickly attracted the attention of major scientific journals, including Science and Nature [11,12]. The h index is seen to have the advantage that it gives a robust estimate of the broad impact of a scientist's cumulative research contributions [5,9]. This means that the h index is insensitive to a set of infrequently or non-cited papers or to one or several highly cited papers: A scientist with very few highly cited papers or, alternatively, many lowly cited papers will have a low h index.…”

A new family of scientific impact measures: The generalized Kosmulski-indices

“…Over the last few years it has been applied to a variety of areas; see for instance [BALL, 2005;BORNMANN & DANIEL, 2005;CRONIN & MEHO, 2006;GLÄNZEL, 2006;HIRSCH, 2007;LIU & ROUSSEAU, 2007;OPPENHEIM, 2007; VAN RAAN, 2006].…”

The w‐index: A measure to assess scientific impact by focusing on widely cited papers

“…Currently, the h-index has been used for evaluation of scientists 14,15,16 , journals 17,18,19 , conferences 20 , scientific topics 21 , research institutions 22,23 , and so on. Similarly, in terms of both simplicity and accuracy, the w-index does have a bright prospect and display its prowess fully in these fields to measure the real impact of their representative articles.…”