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h-index and its alternative: A Review
In recent years, several Scientometrics and Bibliometrics indicators were
proposed to evaluate the scientific impact of individuals, institutions,
colleges, universities and research teams. The h-index gives a major
breakthrough in the research community to evaluate the scientific impact of an
individual. It got a lot of attention due to its simplicity and several other
indicators were proposed to extend the properties of h-index as well as to
overcome shortcomings of h-index. In this literature review, we have discussed
the advantages and limitations of almost all Scientometrics as well as
Bibliometrics indicators which have been categorized into seven categories :(i)
Complement of h-index, (ii) Based on total number of authors, (iii) Based on
publication age, (iv) Combination of two indices, (v) Based on excess citation
count, (vi) Based on total publication count, (vii) Based on other variants.
The main objective of this article is to study all those indicators which have
been proposed to evaluate the scientific impact of an individual researcher or
a group of researchers