 Analysis of the Hirsch index's operational propertiesFiorenzo Franceschini and Domenico A. Maisano European Journal of Operational Research, 2010, vol. 203, issue 2, 494-504 Abstract: The h-index is a relatively recent bibliometric indicator for assessing the research output of scientists, based on the publications and the corresponding citations. Due to the original characteristics of easy calculation and immediate intuitive meaning, this indicator has become very popular in the scientific community. Also, it received some criticism essentially because of its "low" accuracy. The contribution of this paper is to provide a detailed analysis of the h-index, from the point of view of the indicator operational properties. This work can be helpful to better understand the peculiarities and limits of h and avoid its misuse. Finally, we suggest an additional indicator (f) that complements h with the information related to the publication age, not compromising the original simplicity and immediacy of understanding. Keywords: Hirsch; index; Performance; evaluation; Citations; Ranking; Indicator; properties; Operational; properties; Publication; year (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:ejores:v:203:y:2010:i:2:p:494-504 Access Statistics for this article European Journal of Operational Research is currently edited by Roman Slowinski, Jesus Artalejo, Jean-Charles. Billaut, Robert Dyson and Lorenzo Peccati More articles in European Journal of Operational Research from Elsevier |
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