 A multi-criteria approach to the h-indexLuana Carneiro Brandão and João Carlos Correia Baptista Soares de Mello European Journal of Operational Research, 2019, vol. 276, issue 1, 357-363 Abstract: The h-index was proposed in 2005, to objectively measure the impact and relevance of individuals' scientific output, based on their number of publications and citations. Since then, many works have studied the index's advantages and limitations, in various contexts and viewpoints. Still, we contribute to such a vast literature, by adopting a multi-criteria perspective to this matter. More precisely, we study the h-index in light of the fundamental axioms of coherence. We show that the number of publications and the number of total citations alone do not compose a coherent criteria family for the h-index, because it does not follow the axiom of exhaustivity. Thus, in this paper, we study examples from the literature to propose a suitable third criterion for the h-index, specifically, the form of the citation distribution among publications, which is less obvious than the other two. We verify that, with all three criteria, the criteria family that forms the h-index becomes coherent. Keywords: OR in scientometrics; Multiple criteria analysis; h-index; Axioms of coherence (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:276:y:2019:i:1:p:357-363 DOI: 10.1016/j.ejor.2018.12.033 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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