Decomposition of the h-index
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2012-03-12 v2 Physics and Society
Abstract
I introduce a decomposition of the h-index, which is nowadays the leading criterion to assess the relevance of a scientist in his/her research field. According to the proposed decomposition, the h-index is the product of two indicators, the first of which measures the impact of the scientist on the research community and the second may be seen as a measure of concentration of the citations in correspondence of a reduced number of papers. The decomposition is illustrated by an application based on data concerning a group of top level economists.
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@article{arxiv.1201.6179,
title = {Decomposition of the h-index},
author = {Francesco Bartolucci},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1201.6179},
year = {2012}
}
Comments
Trasformed into a letter to the Editor of the "Journal of the American Society for Information"