Socializing the h-index

Graham Cormode, Qiang Ma, S. Muthukrishnan and Brian Thompson

Journal of Informetrics, 2013, vol. 7, issue 3, 718-721

Abstract: A variety of bibliometric measures have been proposed to quantify the impact of researchers and their work. The h-index is a notable and widely used example which aims to improve over simple metrics such as raw counts of papers or citations. However, a limitation of this measure is that it considers authors in isolation and does not account for contributions through a collaborative team. To address this, we propose a natural variant that we dub the Social h-index. The idea is to redistribute the h-index score to reflect an individual's impact on the research community. In addition to describing this new measure, we provide examples, discuss its properties, and contrast with other measures.

Keywords: h-Index; Social impact (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1016/j.joi.2013.05.001

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