Using the h‐index to rank influential information scientistss

Blaise Cronin and Lokman Meho

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 2006, vol. 57, issue 9, 1275-1278

Abstract: The authors apply a new bibliometric measure, the h‐index (Hirsch, 2005), to the literature of information science. Faculty rankings based on raw citation counts are compared with those based on h‐counts. There is a strong positive correlation between the two sets of rankings. It is shown how the h‐index can be used to express the broad impact of a scholar's research output over time in more nuanced fashion than straight citation counts.

Date: 2006
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