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The h index is a widely recognized metric for assessing the research impact of scholars, defined as the maximum value h such that the scholar has published h papers each cited at least h times. While it has proven useful measuring…

The h-index has become a widely used metric for evaluating the productivity and citation impact of researchers. Introduced by physicist Jorge E. Hirsch in 2005, the h-index measures both the quantity (number of publications) and quality…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Ali Borji

The impact of individual scientists is commonly quantified using citation-based measures. The most common such measure is the h-index. A scientist's h-index affects hiring, promotion, and funding decisions, and thus shapes the progress of…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2021-09-15 Vladlen Koltun , David Hafner

How to quantify the impact of a researcher's or an institution's body of work is a matter of increasing importance to scientists, funding agencies, and hiring committees. The use of bibliometric indicators, such as the h-index or the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-02-17 João A. G. Moreira , Xiao Han T. Zeng , Luís A. Nunes Amaral

Bibliometric measures of individual scientific achievement are of particular interest if they can be used to predict future achievement. Here we report results of an empirical study of the predictive power of the h-index compared to other…

Physics and Society · Physics 2008-03-02 J. E. Hirsch

The citation distribution of a researcher shows the impact of their production and determines the success of their scientific career. However, its application in scientific evaluation is difficult due to the bi-dimensional character of the…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2013-04-19 Pablo Dorta-Gonzalez , Maria Isabel Dorta-Gonzalez

Is more always better? We address this question in the context of bibliometric indices that aim to assess the scientific impact of individual researchers by counting their number of highly cited publications. We propose a simple model in…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2013-04-03 Ludo Waltman , Nees Jan van Eck , Paul Wouters

Using bibliometric data artificially generated through a model of citation dynamics calibrated on empirical data, we compare several indicators for the scientific impact of individual researchers. The use of such a controlled setup has the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-09-21 Matus Medo , Giulio Cimini

Accurately evaluating scholarly influence is essential for fair academic assessment, yet traditional bibliometric indicators - dominated by publication and citation counts - often favor hyperprolific authors over those with deeper,…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Lu Li , Yun Wan , Feng Xiao

I propose a new measure, the w-index, as a particularly simple and useful way to assess the integrated impact of a researcher's work, especially his or her excellent papers. The w-index can be defined as follows: If w of a researcher's…

Physics and Society · Physics 2010-02-28 Qiang Wu

The Hirsch index or h-index is widely used to quantify the impact of an individual's scientific research output, determining the highest number h of a scientist's papers that received at least h citations. Several variants of the index have…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-05-19 Michael Schreiber

H-index has become more popular nowadays and is used for some scientific performance criteria in the world widely. This indexing method does not correctly measure any performance or carrier specifications because of the parameters that are…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2024-07-04 Ugur Saglam , Fatih Canata

Citation prediction of scholarly papers is of great significance in guiding funding allocations, recruitment decisions, and rewards. However, little is known about how citation patterns evolve over time. By exploring the inherent involution…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2020-08-13 Xiaomei Bai , Fuli Zhang , Ivan Lee

Bibliometricians have long recurred to citation counts to measure the impact of publications on the advancement of science. However, since the earliest days of the field, some scholars have questioned whether all citations should be worth…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2019-09-16 Cristiano Giuffrida , Giovanni Abramo , Ciriaco Andrea D'Angelo

We provide a comprehensive and critical review of the h-index and its most important modifications proposed in the literature, as well as of other similar indicators measuring research output and impact. Extensions of some of these indices…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2009-09-15 John Panaretos , Chrisovaladis Malesios

In academia, the research performance of a faculty is either evaluated by the number of publications or the number of citations. Most of the time h-index is widely used during the hiring process or the faculty performance evaluation. The…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2021-05-19 Parul Khurana , Kiran Sharma

Citation and publication profiles are gaining importance for the evaluation of top researchers when it comes to the appropriation of funding for excellence programs or career promotion judgments. Indicators like the Normalized Mean Citation…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2013-07-26 Lucy Amez , Nadine Rons

Influence prediction plays a crucial role in the academic community. The amount of scholars' influence determines whether their work will be accepted by others. Most existing research focuses on predicting one paper's citation count after a…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-06-27 Cong Qi , Qin Liu , Kan Liu

Scientific impact has been the center of extended debate regarding its accuracy and reliability. From hiring committees in academic institutions to governmental agencies that distribute funding, an author's scientific success as measured by…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Giannis Nikolentzos , George Panagopoulos , Iakovos Evdaimon , Michalis Vazirgiannis

We present a simple generalization of Hirsch's h-index, Z = \sqrt{h^{2}+C}/\sqrt{5}, where C is the total number of citations. Z is aimed at correcting the potentially excessive penalty made by h on a scientist's highly cited papers,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2013-08-28 Alexander M. Petersen , Sauro Succi