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Restricting the h-index to a citation time window: A case study of a timed Hirsch index

Digital Libraries 2015-01-13 v1 Physics and Society

Abstract

The h-index has been shown to increase in many cases mostly because of citations to rather old publications. This inertia can be circumvented by restricting the evaluation to a citation time window. Here I report results of an empirical study analyzing the evolution of the thus defined timed h-index in dependence on the length of the citation time window.

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@article{arxiv.1412.5050,
  title  = {Restricting the h-index to a citation time window: A case study of a timed Hirsch index},
  author = {Michael Schreiber},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1412.5050},
  year   = {2015}
}

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6 pages, 4 figures