Self-citation corrections for the Hirsch index
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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...
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عنوان ژورنال: Europhysics Letters (EPL)
سال: 2007
ISSN: 0295-5075,1286-4854
DOI: 10.1209/0295-5075/78/30002