A Google Scholar h‐index for journals: An alternative metric to measure journal impact in economics and business

Anne‐Wil Harzing and Ron van der Wal

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 2009, vol. 60, issue 1, 41-46

Abstract: We propose a new data source (Google Scholar) and metric (Hirsch's h‐index) to assess journal impact in the field of economics and business. A systematic comparison between the Google Scholar h‐index and the ISI Journal Impact Factor for a sample of 838 journals in economics and business shows that the former provides a more accurate and comprehensive measure of journal impact.

Date: 2009
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