On the "persistency" of scientific publications: introducing an h-index for journals
Physics and Society
2017-05-29 v1 Digital Libraries
Abstract
What do we really mean by a "good" scientific journal? Do we care more about the short-time impact of our papers, or about the chance that they will still be read and cited on the long run? Here I show that, by regarding a journal as a "virtual scientist" that can be attributed a time-dependent Hirsch h-index, we can introduce a parameter that, arguably, better captures the "persistency" of a scientific publication. Curiously, however, this parameter seems to depend above all on the "thickness" of a journal.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1705.09390,
title = {On the "persistency" of scientific publications: introducing an h-index for journals},
author = {Roberto Piazza},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1705.09390},
year = {2017}
}