Analysis of the Hirsch index’s operational properties

Franceschini, Fiorenzo; Maisano, Domenico Augusto Francesco

doi:10.1016/j.ejor.2009.08.001

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“…Currently his paper has well over 4000 citations in GS. In this section we will only be able to summarise the main advantages and disadvantages, for more detailed reviews see (Alonso et al, 2009;Bornman & Daniel, 2005;Costas & Bordons, 2007;Glänzel, 2006) and for mathematical properties see Glänzel (2006) and Franceschini & Maisano(2010).…”

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A review of theory and practice in scientometrics

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Leydesdorff

2015

European Journal of Operational Research

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Scientometrics is the study of the quantitative aspects of the process of science as a communication system. It is centrally, but not only, concerned with the analysis of citations in the academic literature.In recent years it has come to play a major role in the measurement and evaluation of research performance. In this review we consider: the historical development of scientometrics, sources of citation data, citation metrics and the "laws" of scientometrics, normalisation, journal impact factors and other journal metrics, visualising and mapping science, evaluation and policy, and future developments.

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Section: The H-indexmentioning

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A review of theory and practice in scientometrics

Mingers

Leydesdorff

2015

European Journal of Operational Research

682

385

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“…Ever since its introduction, h received much attention and also some criticism; in any case it has the unquestionable merit of being simple, synthetic and robust (Moed 2005;Egghe 2006Egghe , 2010Glänzel 2006a;Kelly and Jennions 2006;Saad 2006;Bornmann and Daniel 2007;Costas and Bordons 2007;Franceschini et al 2007;Orbay et al 2007;Schreiber 2007;Wendl 2007;Harzing and van der Wal 2008;Alonso et al 2009;Van Raan 2006;Rousseau 2010;Franceschini and Maisano 2010c). Another tangible sign of the popularity of h is the appearance of many proposals for new variants and improvements (Banks 2006;Batista et al 2006;Braun et al 2006;BiHui et al 2007;Burrell 2007;Katsaros et al 2007;Sidiropoulos et al 2007;Antonakis and Lalive 2008;Woeginger 2008;Franceschini and Maisano 2009;Lehmann et al 2010;Schreiber 2010;Franceschini et al 2010).…”

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Bibliometric positioning of scientific manufacturing journals: a comparative analysis

Franceschini

Maisano

2010

Scientometrics

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This article analyzes some of the most popular scientific journals in the Manufacturing field from the point of view of four bibliometric indicators: the ISI impact factor (ISI-IF), the Hirsch (h) index-for-journal, the total number of citations and the h-spectrum. h-spectrum is a novel tool based on h, making it possible to (i) identify a reference profile of the typical authors of a journal, (ii) compare different journals and (iii) provide a rough indication of their ''bibliometric positioning'' in the scientific community. Results of this analysis can be helpful for guiding potential authors and members of the scientific community in the Manufacturing area. Of particular interest is the construction of maps based on h-spectrum and ISI-IF to compare journals and monitor their bibliometric positioning over time. A large amount of empirical data are presented and discussed.

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“…Apart from these general features, which are widely discussed in the existing literature (Rousseau 2008;Alonso et al 2009;Franceschini and Maisano 2010c), the more peculiar advantages and limitations of the proposed tools are summarised in Table 4. • Different information on an individual scientist can be deduced from it (e.g.…”

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Proposals for evaluating the regularity of a scientist’s research output

Franceschini

Maisano

2011

Scientometrics

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Evaluating the career of individual scientists according to their scientific output is a common bibliometric problem. Two aspects are classically taken into account: overall productivity and overall diffusion/impact, which can be measured by a plethora of indicators that consider publications and/or citations separately or synthesise these two quantities into a single number (e.g. h-index). A secondary aspect, which is sometimes mentioned in the rules of competitive examinations for research position/promotion, is time regularity of one researcher's scientific output. Despite the fact that it is sometimes invoked, a clear definition of regularity is still lacking. We define it as the ability of generating an active and stable research output over time, in terms of both publications/ quantity and citations/diffusion. The goal of this paper is introducing three analysis tools to perform qualitative/quantitative evaluations on the regularity of one scientist's output in a simple and organic way. These tools are respectively (1) the PY/CY diagram, (2) the publication/citation Ferrers diagram and (3) a simplified procedure for comparing the research output of several scientists according to their publication and citation temporal distributions (Borda's ranking). Description of these tools is supported by several examples.

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Analysis of the Hirsch index’s operational properties

Cited by 71 publications

References 43 publications

A review of theory and practice in scientometrics

A review of theory and practice in scientometrics

Bibliometric positioning of scientific manufacturing journals: a comparative analysis

Proposals for evaluating the regularity of a scientist’s research output

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