Using the h-index to rank influential information scientists

By Blaise Cronin, Lokman I. Meho. J. Assoc. Inf. Sci. Technol., 2006

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Subfields: Information Systems, Statistics and Probability

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What do we know about the h index? (2007, unknown): “A scientist’s h index will never decrease (Sidiropoulos, Katsaros, & Manolopoulos, 2006); an increase is to be expected as new (high-impact) papers are published, as “sleeping beauties” (van Raan, 2004b) come to life, and as the scientist’s papers attract citations ( Cronin & Meho, 2006; Hirsch, 20”
Which h-index? — A comparison of WoS, Scopus and Google Scholar (2008, methodology): “More complete (but much more time consuming) citation counts could have been achieved had we consulted the “Cited reference search” as well (like in [CRONIN & MEHO, 2006]).”
h-Index: A review focused in its variants, computation and standardization for different scientific fields (2009, background): “Cronin and Meho (2006) and Oppenheim (2007) use the h-index to rank influential information scientists.”
COMPARISON OF UNIVERSITIES SCIENTIFIC PERFORMANCE USING BIBLIOMETRIC INDICATORS (2011, methodology): “The h-index has been used for evolution of research groups (Van Raan 2006), institutions (Molinari and Molinari, 2008), individual researchers (Cronin and Meho 2006), and journals (Vanclay 2008).”
Impact of data sources on citation counts and rankings of LIS faculty: Web of science versus scopus and google scholar (2007, background): “…citation counts can also help generate more accurate h-index scores for authors and journals (Bar-Ilan, 2006; Bornmann & Daniel, 2005, 2007; Cronin & Meho, 2006; Hirsch, 2005; Oppenheim, 2007) and journal impact factors (Garfield, 1996, 2006; Nisonger, 2004b; Saha, Saint, & Christakis,…”
Generalized Hirsch h-index for disclosing latent facts in citation networks (2007, methodology): “After the introduction of the h-index, a number of other proposals followed, either presenting case studies using it [2, 4, 9, 10 , 26, 28], or describing a new variation of it [12] (aiming to bridge the gap between the lower bound of total number of citations calculated by h-index and their real n”
Bibliometrics to webometrics (2008, background): “For example, ranked lists of the h-indexes of UK and US LIS professors [23, 24] may be of interest to researchers in the field.”
The h-index: Advantages, limitations and its relation with other bibliometric indicators at the micro level (2007, methodology): “It has been calculated in different fields such as physics (Hirsch, 2005), biomedicine (Bornmann & Daniel, 2005), information science (Cronin & Meho, 2006), and business (Saad, 2006).”
An integrated approach for main path analysis: Development of the Hirsch index as an example (2012, unknown): “Other studies applied theHirsch index and its variants to evaluate an individual’s research output (Cronin and Meho, 2006) and a journal’s overall performance (Braun et al., 2006).”