The h-index in Australian Astronomy

The h-index in Australian Astronomy

The Hirsch (2005) h-index is now widely used as a metric to compare individual researchers. To evaluate it in the context of Australian Astronomy, the h-index for every member of the Astronomical Society of Australia (ASA) is found using NASA’s Astrophysics Data System Bibliographic Services (ADS). Percentiles of the h-index distribution are detailed for a variety of categories of ASA members, ...

Astronomy: H. Shapley

The Scientiic Potential for Astronomy from the Antarctic Plateau Australian Working Group for Antarctic Astronomy

1 Figure 1: Map of Antarctica and the Australian Antarctic Territory. This sketch map shows the location of sites being considered for astronomy on the high plateau (Dome A, Dome C, South Pole and Vostok), as well as the Australian bases along the coast, Casey, Davis and Mawson, and the US base at McMurdo. 2 Executive Summary Our knowledge of the universe comes from recording the photon and par...

Astronomy & Astrophysics The H α galaxy survey

We discuss the selection and observations of a large sample of nearby galaxies, which we are using to quantify the star formation activity in the local Universe. The sample consists of 334 galaxies across all Hubble types from S0/a to Im and with recession velocities of between 0 and 3000 km s−1. The basic data for each galaxy are narrow band Hα+[N] and R-band imaging, from which we derive st...

Viva the h-index

In their article ‘The inconsistency of the h-index’ Ludo Waltman and Nees Jan van Neck give three examples to demonstrate the inconsistency of the h-index. As will be shown below, a little extension of their examples just illustrate the opposite, a stable feature of the h-index. For starting authors it, the h-index that is, focusses on the number of articles; for experienced authors its focus s...