Socializing the h-index

TY - JOUR

T1 - Socializing the h-index

AU - Cormode, Graham

AU - Ma, Qiang

AU - Thompson, Brian

PY - 2013

Y1 - 2013

N2 - A variety of bibliometric measures have been proposed to quantify the impact of researchers and their work. The h-index is a notable and widely used example which aims to improve over simple metrics such as raw counts of papers or citations. However, a limitation of this measure is that it considers authors in isolation and does not account for contributions through a collaborative team. To address this, we propose a natural variant that we dub the Social h-index. The idea is to redistribute the h-index score to reflect an individual's impact on the research community. In addition to describing this new measure, we provide examples, discuss its properties, and contrast with other measures.

AB - A variety of bibliometric measures have been proposed to quantify the impact of researchers and their work. The h-index is a notable and widely used example which aims to improve over simple metrics such as raw counts of papers or citations. However, a limitation of this measure is that it considers authors in isolation and does not account for contributions through a collaborative team. To address this, we propose a natural variant that we dub the Social h-index. The idea is to redistribute the h-index score to reflect an individual's impact on the research community. In addition to describing this new measure, we provide examples, discuss its properties, and contrast with other measures.

KW - H-Index

KW - Social impact

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U2 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joi.2013.05.001

DO - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joi.2013.05.001

M3 - Article

SN - 1751-1577

VL - 7

SP - 718

EP - 721

JO - Journal of Informetrics

JF - Journal of Informetrics

IS - 3

ER -