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An index to quantify an individual's scientific research output that takes into account the effect of multiple coauthorship
I propose the index ("hbar"), defined as the number of papers of an
individual that have citation count larger than or equal to the of all
coauthors of each paper, as a useful index to characterize the scientific
output of a researcher that takes into account the effect of multiple
coauthorship. The bar is higher for .Comment: A few minor changes from v1. To be published in Scientometric
A Case Study of the Modified Hirsch Index hm Accounting for Multiple Co-authors
J. E. Hirsch (2005) introduced the h-index to quantify an individual's
scientific research output by the largest number h of a scientist's papers,
that received at least h citations. This so-called Hirsch index can be easily
modified to take multiple co-authorship into account by counting the papers
fractionally according to (the inverse of) the number of authors. I have worked
out 26 empirical cases of physicists to illustrate the effect of this
modification. Although the correlation between the original and the modified
Hirsch index is relatively strong, the arrangement of the datasets is
significantly different depending on whether they are put into order according
to the values of either the original or the modified index.Comment: 29 pages, including 2 tables, 3 figures with 7 plots altogether,
accepted for publication in J. Am. Soc. Inf. Sci. Techn. vol. 60 (5) 200
A review of the literature on citation impact indicators
Citation impact indicators nowadays play an important role in research
evaluation, and consequently these indicators have received a lot of attention
in the bibliometric and scientometric literature. This paper provides an
in-depth review of the literature on citation impact indicators. First, an
overview is given of the literature on bibliographic databases that can be used
to calculate citation impact indicators (Web of Science, Scopus, and Google
Scholar). Next, selected topics in the literature on citation impact indicators
are reviewed in detail. The first topic is the selection of publications and
citations to be included in the calculation of citation impact indicators. The
second topic is the normalization of citation impact indicators, in particular
normalization for field differences. Counting methods for dealing with
co-authored publications are the third topic, and citation impact indicators
for journals are the last topic. The paper concludes by offering some
recommendations for future research
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