Influence of adding or deleting items and sources on the h‐index

Leo Egghe

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 2010, vol. 61, issue 2, 370-373

Abstract: Adding or deleting items such as self‐citations has an influence on the h‐index of an author. This influence will be proved mathematically in this article. We hereby prove the experimental finding in E. Gianoli and M.A. Molina‐Montenegro (2009) that the influence of adding or deleting self‐citations on the h‐index is greater for low values of the h‐index. Why this is logical also is shown by a simple theoretical example. Adding or deleting sources such as adding or deleting minor contributions of an author also has an influence on the h‐index of this author; this influence is modeled in this article. This model explains some practical examples found in X. Hu, R. Rousseau, and J. Chen (in press).

Date: 2010
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