Hirsch's index: a case study conducted at the Faculdade de Filosofia, Ciências e Letras de Ribeirão Preto, Universidade de São Paulo

Abstract

An analysis of scientific bibliographic productivity using the Hirsch h-index, information from the Institute of Scientific Information database and the Curriculum Lattes (CNPq, Brazil) was performed at the Faculdade de Filosofia, Ciências e Letras de Ribeirão Preto, Universidade de São Paulo (FFCLRP-USP) that has four departments in natural, biological and social sciences. Bibliometric evaluations of undergraduate programs showed a better performance of the departments of Chemistry (P < 0.001) and Biology (P < 0.001) when compared to the departments of Physics and Mathematics and Psychology and Education. We also analyzed the scientific output of the six graduate programs of FFCLRP: Psychology, Psychobiology, Chemistry, Physics Applied to Medicine and Biology, Comparative Biology, and Entomology. The graduate program in Psychology presented a lower h-index (P < 0.001) and had fewer papers indexed by the ISI web of science (P < 0.001) when compared to the other graduate programs. The poorer performance of the Psychology program may be associated with the limited coverage by the Thompson Institute of Scientific Information database.

How has healthcare research performance been assessed? A systematic review

“…The plurality of studies were performed in North America ( n = 20) 14–33 and Western Europe ( n = 19). 34–52 Fewer studies were performed in Eastern Europe ( n = 5), 53–57 South America ( n = 3), 58–60 Asia ( n = 2) 61,62 and Australia ( n = 1). 63 The studies were published from 1973 until 2009, but the majority of the studies were published after the millennium ( n = 34).…”

“…Only seven studies assessed research performance over a lifetime 31,40,52,54,58–60 in comparison to 24 studies assessing research performance over a 1–5-year period. 15,16,19–23,27–30,35,36,43,45, 47–51,55,57,61,62…”

The Hirsch index and related impact measures

“… Journals : Barendse (2007); Gracza and Somoskovi (2008); Harzing and van der Wal (2009); Jeang (2007); Krauskopf and Krauskopf (2008); Levitt and Thelwall (2008); Liu, Rao, and Rousseau (in press); Olden (2007); Orbay and Karamustafaolu (2008); Rousseau (2006a); Rousseau and Small (2005); Saad (2006); Satyanarayana and Sharma (2008); Sebire (2008); Sidiropoulos, Katsaros, and Manolopoulos (2007); Vanclay (2007, 2008a, 2008b). Research Groups and Institutions : de Araujo (2008); Grothkopf and Stevens‐Rayburn (2007); Kinney (2007); Molinari and Molinari (2008a, 2008b); Mugnaini and colleagues (2008); Pires da Luz, Marques‐Portella, Mendlowicz, Gleiser, Silva Freire Coutinho, and Figueira (2008); Torro‐Alves and colleagues (2007); van Raan (2006). Countries : Lufrano and Staiti (2008); Mahbuba and Rousseau (2008), Pilc (2008).…”

“…Research Groups and Institutions : de Araujo (2008); Grothkopf and Stevens‐Rayburn (2007); Kinney (2007); Molinari and Molinari (2008a, 2008b); Mugnaini and colleagues (2008); Pires da Luz, Marques‐Portella, Mendlowicz, Gleiser, Silva Freire Coutinho, and Figueira (2008); Torro‐Alves and colleagues (2007); van Raan (2006).…”

“…Additional application areas are mentioned here, grouped by broad topic. Authors, Career Assessment : Aguayo‐Albasini and Campillo‐Soto (2008); Bar‐Ilan (2006); Batista and colleagues (2006); Bornmann, Wallon, and Ledin (2008); Brahler and Decker (2005); Costas and Bordons (2007a); Cronin and Meho (2006); de Araujo (2008); Dodson (2008); Dorta‐Contreras, Arencibia‐Jorge, Marti‐Lahera, and Araujo‐Ruiz (2008); Engqvist and Frommen (2008); Ferrand (2007); Frangopol (2005); Glänzel and Persson (2005); Harnad (2007); Heaney (2007); Hermes‐Lima, Alencastro, Santos, Navas, and Beleboni (2007); Humberto Romero, Garcia, and Kiwi (2009); Imperial and Rodriguez‐Navarro (2007); Jones (2008); Kellner (2008); Kellner and Ponciano (2008); Kelly and Jennions (2006, 2007); Levitt and Thelwall (2009); Lovegrove and Johnson (2008); Lufrano and Staiti (2008); Machacek and Kolcunova (2008); McKercher (2008); Minasny and colleagues (2007); Mugnaini, Packer, and Meneghini (2008); Oppenheim (2007); Purvis (2006—a 20‐line note); Rao (2007); Rau (2007); Rodriguez, Janssens, Debackere, and De Moor (2007, 2008); Romero, Cortés, Escudero, Lopez, and Moreno (2007); Saad (2006); Salgado and Paez (2007); Sanderson (2008); Sangam and Girji (2008); Schreiber (2007a); Sebire (2008); Sidiropoulos and Katsaros (2008); Sidiropoulos, Katsaros, and Manolopoulos (2007); Timofieiev, Snásel, and Dvorský (2008); Torro‐Alves, Herculano, Tercariol, Filho, and Graeff (2007); Ursprung and Zimmer (2007); van Haselen (2007); van Leeuwen (2008); Vanclay (2007); Vinkler (2007). Journals : Barendse (2007); Gracza and Somoskovi (2008); Harzing and van der Wal (2009); Jeang (2007); Krauskopf and Krauskopf (2008); Levitt and Thelwall (…”