Generalized Hirsch h-index for disclosing latent facts in citation networks

Generalized h-index for Disclosing Latent Facts in Citation Networks

What is the value of a scientist and its impact upon the scientific thinking? How can we measure the prestige of a journal or of a conference? The evaluation of the scientific work of a scientist and the estimation of the quality of a journal or conference has long attracted significant interest, due to the benefits from obtaining an unbiased and fair criterion. Although it appears to be simple...

Generalized h-index for Revealing Latent Facts in Social Networks of Citations

What is the value of a scientist and its impact upon the scientific thinking? How can we measure the prestige of a journal or of a conference? The evaluation of the scientific work of a scientist and the estimation of the quality of a journal or conference has long attracted significant interest, but the definition of a quality metric is not an easy task. To overcome the disadvantages of the pr...

Self-citation corrections for the Hirsch index

I propose to sharpen the index h, proposed by Hirsch as a useful index to characterize the scientific output of a researcher, by excluding the self-citations. Performing a self-experiment and also discussing in detail two anonymous data sets, it is shown that self-citations can significantly reduce the h index in contrast to Hirsch’s expectations. This result is confirmed by an analysis of 13 f...

Dynamic h-index: The Hirsch index in function of time

Restricting the h-index to a publication and citation time window: A case study of a timed Hirsch index

The h-index has been shown to increase in many cases mostly because of citations to rather old publications. This inertia can be circumvented by restricting the evaluation to a citation time window. Here I report results of an empirical study analyzing the evolution of the thus defined timed h-index in dependence on the length of the citation time window. 1. Introduction A recently popular meas...