Using the h-index for assessing single publications

Abstract

It is shown that a Hirsch-type index can be used for assessing single highly cited publications by calculating the h-index of the set of papers citing the work in question. This index measures not only the direct impact of a publication but also its indirect influence through the citing papers.

The early adulthood of the Asia Pacific Journal of Management: A literature review 2005–2014

“…The second generation of citations refers to citations received by the citing articles of the target one. 9 The SP h-index is based on these citations and is defined as h such that h of the papers citing the target work have h citations or more (Schubert, 2009). 10 This measurement does not only assess the impact of an article, but also its centrality by considering the quality and quantity of its citing publications (Schubert, 2009).…”

“…Early citation counts reflect the immediacy degree of the citation process and deal with cutting- 9 See, for instance Egghe (2011), Fragkiadaki, Evangelidis, Samaras, and Dervos (2011); Fragkiadaki and Evangelidis (2014). 10 As shown in Schubert (2009), analyzing the SP h-index adds almost no value when the article receives a low number of direct (first generation) citations. edge research quickly acknowledged and cited by colleagues.…”

“…), the editorial contents, the journal's international focus, and the citation analysis both in terms of total citation counts and impact factors that focus on the recent effect of the journal on the literature of its subject. Some of these issues heavily depend on the editorial board; therefore, an explicit recognition should be given to the different members of the board and Editorsin-Chief during the analyzed decade-Andrew Delios (National University of Singapore) was the Editor- Furthermore, some of these articles show a high Single-Publication-h-index based on second generation citations, pointing to central articles in the research field (Schubert, 2009)-we will now refer to the specific articles contributing the most to this recognition.…”

“…Among them, the above-mentioned reviews and perspectives, as well as research articles published in Special Issues or regular ones, among them some conceptual developments (e.g., and empirical tests based on quantitative methodologies (among them, Filatochev et al, 2005;. In order to measure the indirect impact of highly cited articles, as well as their centrality, we analyzed their Single Publication h-index based on second generation citations (Schubert, 2009). Some articles increase their influence on the field when considering this accumulated impact (e.g., .…”

Journal Impact Factors for evaluating scientific performance: use of h-like indicators

“…Furthermore, the h-index, initially intended for the assessment of individual academics, has been extended from micro-level evaluation of individuals to macro-level evaluation of journals (Braun et al 2005(Braun et al , 2006Schubert and Glänzel 2007;Vanclay 2008), research groups (Van Raan 2006) and institutions (Arencibia-Jorge et al 2008;Molinari and Molinari 2008;Pires da Luz et al 2008). A recent application of the h-index to an even further micro-level was made by Schubert (2009) to assess single highly cited publications. Additionally, novel h-type indexes were introduced by Schubert et al (2009) to characterize networks: the 'degree h-index' which measures the 'influential weight' of a network based on its size and density.…”