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, ...

Temporal growth of the h-index in a diachronous cumulative time series is predicted to be linear by Hirsch (2005), whereas other models predict a concave increase. Actual data generally yield a linear growth or S-shaped growth. We study the h-index’s growth in computer simulations of the publication-citation process. In most simulations the h-index grows linearly in time. Only occasionally does...

Use of the Hirsch-index (h) as measure of an author's visibility in the scientific literature has become popular as an alternative to a gross measure like total citations (c). I show that, at least in astrophysics, h correlates tightly with overall citations. The mean relation is h = 0.5(√ c + 1). Outliers are few and not too far from the mean, especially if 'normalized' ADS citations are used ...

We prove two complexity results about the H-index concerned with the Google scholar merge operation on one’s scientific articles. The results show that, although it is hard to merge one’s articles in an optimal way, it is easy to merge them in such a way that one’s H-index increases. This suggests the need for an alternative scientific performance measure that is resistant to this type of manip...

The quest ions in this art icle were formulated by G. Buela-Casal, the answers were given by J.E. Hirsch. *Corresponding author: Department of Physics, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA. E-mail address: j [email protected] (J.E. Hirsch). Abstract The h-index originates from the assumpt ion that the number of citat ions received by a scient ist is a better indicator of th...

This paper studies mathematical properties of h-index sequences as developed by Liang [Liang, L. (2006). h-Index sequence and h-index matrix: Constructions and applications. Scientometrics, 69(1), 153–159]. For practical reasons, Liming studies such sequences where the time goes backwards while it is more logical to use the time going forward (real career periods). Both type of h-index sequence...

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