Do we need the g-index?
Physics and Society
2013-01-18 v1 Digital Libraries
Abstract
Using a very small sample of 8 datasets it was recently shown by De Visscher (2011) that the g-index is very close to the square root of the total number of citations. It was argued that there is no bibliometrically meaningful difference. Using another somewhat larger empirical sample of 26 datasets I show that the difference may be larger and I argue in favor of the g-index.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1301.4028,
title = {Do we need the g-index?},
author = {Michael Schreiber},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1301.4028},
year = {2013}
}
Comments
7 pages, 3 figures accepted for publication in Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology