On the Robustness of the h-index: a mathematical approach

Jean-Michel Courtault () and Naïla Hayek ()
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Naïla Hayek: Université de Franche-Comté, and Laboratoire Marin Mersenne, Université de Paris I

Economics Bulletin, 2008, vol. 3, issue 78, 1-9

Abstract: The h-index is an index recently proposed by Hirsch (2005) to measure scientific achievement by individual scholars. It is a compound measure of publications and citations. We show the robustness of this index. This means that h-index increases with both the number of publications and the number of citations only when these numbers are significant.

JEL-codes: C0 J2 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008-12-20
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