The h-index—defined as the value such that an individual has published at least h papers with at least h citations—has become a popular metric for assessing the citation impact of scientists. As already noted in the original work of Hirsch and as evidenced from data for a representative sample of 255 physicists, √ c scales as h, where c is the total number of citations for an individual. Thus √...

The h-index is an important bibliographic measure used to assess the performance of researchers. Van Bevern et al. [Artif. Intel., to appear] showed that, despite computational worst-case hardness results, substantial manipulation of the h-index of Google Scholar author profiles is possible by merging articles. Complementing this work, we study the opposite operation, the splitting of articles,...

The h-index (Hirsch, 2005) is robust, remaining relatively unaffected by errors in the long tails of the citations-rank distribution, such as typographic errors that short-change frequently-cited papers and create bogus additional records. This robustness, and the ease with which h-indices can be verified, support the use of a Hirsch-type index over alternatives such as the journal impact facto...

Spreading is a ubiquitous process in the social, biological and technological systems. Therefore, identifying influential spreaders, which is important to prevent epidemic spreading and to establish effective vaccination strategies, is full of theoretical and practical significance. In this paper, a weighted h-index centrality based on virtual nodes extension is proposed to quantify the spreadi...

Recently Woeginger [Woeginger, G. H. (2008-a). An axiomatic characterization for the Hirsch-index.Mathematical Social Sciences. An axiomatic analysis of Egghe’s g-index. Journal of Informetrics] introduced a set of axioms for scientific impact measures. These lead to a characterization of the h-index. In this note we consider a slight generalization and check which of Woeginger’s axioms are sat...

The purpose of this editorial note was to conduct a citation analysis of the Webology journal in order to show the journal impact factor, h-index, i10-index, i20-index, and patent citations. This note indicates to what extent the Webology journal is used and cited by the international scientific community. The results show that the total number of citations to Webology papers on Google Scholar ...