Viva the h-index

Leo Waaijers

Viva the h-index

Physics and Society 2011-09-27 v1 Digital Libraries

Authors: Leo Waaijers

Abstract

In their article 'The inconsistency of the h-index' Ludo Waltman and Nees Jan van Neck give three examples to demonstrate the inconsistency of the h-index. As will be explained, a little extension of their examples just illustrate the opposite, a stable feature of the h-index. For starting authors it, the h-index that is, focusses on the number of articles; for experienced authors its focus shifts towards the citation scores. This feature may be liked or not but does not make the h-index an inconsistent and inappropriate indicator, as the authors claim.

Keywords

scientometrics

Cite

@article{arxiv.1109.5520,
  title  = {Viva the h-index},
  author = {Leo Waaijers},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1109.5520},
  year   = {2011}
}

Comments

Commenting article http://arxiv.org/abs/1108.3901 by Ludo Waltman and Nees Jan van Neck on "The inconsistency of the h-index"

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