The influence of transformations on the h‐index and the g‐index

L. Egghe

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 2008, vol. 59, issue 8, 1304-1312

Abstract: In a previous article, we introduced a general transformation on sources and one on items in an arbitrary information production process (IPP). In this article, we investigate the influence of these transformations on the h‐index and on the g‐index. General formulae that describe this influence are presented. These are applied to the case that the size‐frequency function is Lotkaian (i.e., is a decreasing power function). We further show that the h‐index of the transformed IPP belongs to the interval bounded by the two transformations of the h‐index of the original IPP, and we also show that this property is not true for the g‐index.

Date: 2008
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