A disadvantage of h-type indices for comparing the citation impact of two researchers

L Egghe

Research Evaluation, 2011, vol. 20, issue 4, 341-346

Abstract: We show that the rank-frequency functions of two researchers usually intersect. As a consequence of this, different h-type indices can conclude on different impact judgements of the two researchers. Also in this paper a new indicator is proposed: the average number of citations per paper in the papers whose ranks are smaller than or equal to the intersection point of their two rank-frequency functions. The theoretical derivations are illustrated using an empirical example. Copyright , Beech Tree Publishing.

Date: 2011
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