What do we know about the h index?
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- 13 June 2007
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
- Vol. 58 (9) , 1381-1385
- https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.20609
Abstract
Jorge Hirsch (2005a, 2005b) recently proposed the h index to quantify the research output of individual scientists. The new index has attracted a lot of attention in the scientific community. The claim that the h index in a single number provides a good representation of the scientific lifetime achievement of a scientist as well as the (supposed) simple calculation of the h index using common literature databases lead to the danger of improper use of the index. We describe the advantages and disadvantages of the h index and summarize the studies on the convergent validity of this index. We also introduce corrections and complements as well as single‐number alternatives to the h index.This publication has 23 references indexed in Scilit:
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