What do we know about the h index?

By Lutz Bornmann, Hans-Dieter Daniel. J. Assoc. Inf. Sci. Technol., 2007

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Subfields: Information Systems, Statistics and Probability, Strategy and Management

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Impact of data sources on citation counts and rankings of LIS faculty: Web of science versus scopus and google scholar (2007, background): “More complete 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, &…”
An integrated approach for main path analysis: Development of the Hirsch index as an example (2012, background): “The second data source is a collection of references from the following eight review articles: Alonso, Cabrerizo, Herrera-Viedma, and Herrera (2009), Bornmann and Daniel (2007, 2009), Egghe (2010), Norris and Oppenheim (2010); Panaretos and Malesios (2009), Thompson, Callen, and Nahata (2009), and…”
Citations, Citation Indicators, and Research Quality: An Overview of Basic Concepts and Theories (2019, neutral): “…paid to methodological issues such as appropriate methods for normalizing absolute citation counts (Waltman, van Eck, van Leeuwen, Visser, & van Raan, 2011b), in addition to development and examinations of new citation-based indicators such as the h-index (Bornmann & Daniel, 2007; Waltman, 2016).”
A Bibliometric Analysis and Visualization of Medical Big Data Research (2018, background): “A researcher’s H-index means that he/she has at most H papers that were cited at least H times [31].”
To share the fame in a fair way, hm modifies h for multi-authored manuscripts (2008, background): “It has received immediate attention [2] [3] in the scientific community and has been critically evaluated [3] [4] and applied to various communities [5], as can be seen by the 72 citations that Hirsch's paper [1] has already accumulated within 2 years which is already more than sufficient to…”
h-Index: A review focused in its variants, computation and standardization for different scientific fields (2009, methodology): “In Bornmann and Daniel (2005, 2007a) the h-index is studied and used for post-doctoral research fellowships applicants evaluation.”
Reflections on recent developments of the h-index and h-type indices (2008, background): “Already published reviews on this topic include (Bornmann& Daniel [3]; Bornmann et al.”
Google Scholar as a new source for citation analysis (2008, background): “We further report the journal impact factor for 2006, the h-index, the g-index and the average number of citations per paper For each additional metric we also report how the journal ranks on this measure”
The inconsistency of the h-index (2011, methodology): “For review papers of the h-index literature, we refer to Bornmann and Daniel (2007), Alonso, Cabrerizo, Herrera-Viedma, and Herrera (2009), Egghe (2010), and Norris and 3 However, Egghe (2006) considers the insensitivity of the h-index to highly cited publications a disadvantage.”
An index to quantify an individual’s scientific research output that takes into account the effect of multiple coauthorship (2009, neutral): “The h-index (number of papers of an individual with citation count Ch) has gained considerable acceptance as a measure of individual research achievement that is advantageous compared to other bibliometric indicators such as total number of citations or number of papers published in journals of high”
Reputation and impact in academic careers (2013, neutral): “[53] Bornmann L, Daniel H-J (2007) What do we know about the h index? Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 58: 1381–1385.”