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Dynamic h-index: the Hirsch index in function of time (2006)

Abstract
When we have a group of papers and when we fix the present time we can determine the unique number h being the number of papers that received h or more citations while the other papers received a number of citations which is not larger than h. In this paper we determine the time dependence of the h-index. This is important to describe the expected career evolution of a scientist’s work or of a journal’s production in a fixed year. We use the earlier established cumulative nth citation distribution. We show that ...

Publication details
Download http://hdl.handle.net/1942/980
Publisher JOHN WILEY & SONS INC
Repository Document Server@UHasselt (Belgium)
Keywords Hirsch index, H-index, Time dependent, Lotka, Aging rate
Type Article - published
Language English
Relation http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/asi.20473
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