Comparative analysis between impact factor and h-index for pharmacology and psychiatry journals

Pascal Bador () and Thierry Lafouge
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Pascal Bador: Université de Lyon
Thierry Lafouge: Université de Lyon

Scientometrics, 2010, vol. 84, issue 1, No 7, 65-79

Abstract: Abstract Using strictly the same parameters (identical two publication years (2004–2005) and identical one-year citation window (2006)), IF 2006 was compared with h-index 2006 for two samples of “Pharmacology and Pharmacy” and “Psychiatry” journals computed from the ISI Web of Science. For the two samples, the IF and the h-index rankings of the journals are very different. The correlation coefficient between the IF and the h-index is high for Psychiatry but lower for Pharmacology. The linearity test performed between the h-index and $$ \,IF^{{{\frac{\alpha }{\alpha \, + 1}}}} .\,n\,^{{{\frac{1}{\alpha \, + 1}}}} $$ showed the great sensitivity of the model compared with α. The IF and h-index can be completely complementary when evaluating journals of the same scientific discipline.

Keywords: Journal impact factor; Hirsch index; Journal ranking (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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