Letter to the editor: Revisiting the h-index and the p-index

Gangan Prathap ()
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Gangan Prathap: A P J Abdul Kalam Technological University

Scientometrics, 2019, vol. 121, issue 3, No 30, 1829-1833

Abstract: Abstract In this Letter to the Editor we revisit the h-index, which is a heuristic construction and the mock h-index (also known as the p-index) which is derived from analytical considerations. We use high fidelity curated data from the recent Ioannidis et al. dataset to study the implications of a heuristic construction and a theoretically derived framework.

Keywords: Bibliometrics; Heuristics; h-index; p-index; Mock h-index (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1007/s11192-019-03240-7

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