The influence of self-citation corrections on Egghe's g index
Physics and Society
2013-01-31 v1
Abstract
The g index was introduced by Leo Egghe as an improvement of Hirsch's index h for measuring the overall citation record of a set of articles. It better takes into account the highly skewed frequency distribution of citations than the h index. I propose to sharpen this g index by excluding the self-citations. I have worked out nine practical cases in physics and compare the h and g values with and without self-citations. As expected, the g index characterizes the data set better than the h index. The influence of the self-citations appears to be more significant for the g index than for the h index.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0707.4577,
title = {The influence of self-citation corrections on Egghe's g index},
author = {Michael Schreiber},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0707.4577},
year = {2013}
}
Comments
9 pages, 2 figures, submitted to Scientometrics