h-Index: A review focused in its variants, computation and standardization for different scientific fields

By Sergio Alonso, F. Cabrerizo, Enrique Herrera-Viedma, Francisco Herrera. J. Informetrics, 2009

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The h-index and some related bibliometric indices have received a lot of attention from the scientific community in the last few years due to some of their good properties (easiness of computation, balance between quantity of publications and their impact and so on). Many different indicators have been developed in order to extend and overcome the drawbacks of the original Hirsch proposal. In this contribution we present a comprehensive review on the h-index and related indicators field. From the initial h-index proposal we study their main advantages, drawbacks and the main applications that we can find in the literature. A description of many of the h-related indices that have been developed along with their main characteristics and some of the works that analyze and compare them are presented. We also review the most up to date standardization studies that allow a fair comparison by means of the h-index among scientists from different research areas and finally, some works that analyze the computation of the h-index and related indices by using different citation databases (ISI Citation Indexes, Google Scholar and Scopus) are introduced.

Subfields: Statistics and Probability, Strategy and Management

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Socio-environmental impacts of lithium mineral extraction: towards a research agenda (2018, methodology): “The approach is based on (1) a co-word analysis (Callon et al 1983) and the h-index (Hirsch 2005, Alonso et al 2009) to represent the productivity and citation impact of a research theme, (2) the equivalence index (Callon et al 1991) to represent the similarity between keywords and (3) the…”
Fuzzy decision making: A bibliometric-based review (2017, neutral): “Likewise, from the proposal of this index, several authors have studied its main characteristics, advantages and disadvantages proposing new indexes based on this [34].”
Worldwide Research on Plant Defense against Biotic Stresses as Improvement for Sustainable Agriculture (2018, background): “H-index, defined as h of one’s total articles has at least h citations each [40], allows for the study of a journal, an institution, a scientific or a country according to the number of publications or the number of citations [41,42].”
The science of science: from the perspective of complex systems (2017, neutral): “to three previously published review papers [187,190,191].”
A review of the literature on citation impact indicators (2015, background): “Instead, the reader is referred to existing literature reviews (Alonso et al., 2009; Egghe, 2010; Norris & Oppenheim, 2010; Panaretos & Malesios, 2009).”
Forty years of the European Journal of Operational Research: A bibliometric overview (2017, methodology): “This study uses a wide range of bibliometric indicators including the total number of publications and citations, the hindex (Hirsch, 2005; Alonso et al. 2009; Franceschini and Maisano, 2010), the cites per paper, citation thresholds and some other related indicators (Merigó et al.”