| A case study : evolution of JASIS' Hirsch index (2006) | |||||||||||
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| A case study evolution JASIS Hirsch index Ronald Rousseau KHBO Association Leuven Industrial Sciences and Technology Zeedijk Oostende Belgium mail ronald rousseau khbo Abstract The evolution the Hirsch index the Journal the American Society Information Science over the period studied using variable citation window relative index introduced The Hirsch index short index has recently been defined Hirsch scientific author has Hirsch index equal the natural number is the largest number articles published this scientist having received least citations each This definition can easily adapted journals the role scientists and article citations Braun nzel Schubert The Hirsch index single measure visibility whole group articles incorporating publications well citations has advantage over some other simple indicators such number significant papers which arbitrary number citations received each the most cited papers which also depend arbitrary threshold and moreover not single number Hirsch The Hirsch index has generally been well received the research community Ball Popov and even informetrics Bornmann Daniel Braun nzel Schubert nzel The authors the latter article underline the fact that the index robust the sense that insensitive accidental excess uncited articles and one several extremely highly cited articles course the index has also number disadvantages pointed out van Raan and nzel The hindex has already been the subject number scientific research papers see Gl nzel Egghe this shor | |||||||||||
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