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Archives: h-index

Do We Need A Self-Citation Index?

Designed to identify individuals who might be gaming their h-index score, the s-index may do more harm than good.

  • By Phil Davis
  • Sep 13, 2017
  • 3 Comments

If We don’t Know What Citations Mean, What Does it Mean when We Count Them?

There is no shortage of critique of citation metrics and other efforts to quantify the “impact” of scholarship. Will a report calling for “responsible metrics” help researchers, administrators and funders finally wean themselves?

  • By Karin Wulf
  • Aug 4, 2015
  • 7 Comments

A Day at the Beach — How the Messiness and Unpredictability of Journals Thwart Granularity

Attempts to use new measurements to more finely predict or represent journal quality are bound to falter because of some qualities inherent to journals themselves.

  • By Kent Anderson
  • Aug 12, 2014
  • 9 Comments

Google's New "Scholar Metrics" Have Potential, But Also Prove Problematic

Google’s new “Scholar Metrics” promise to make the h-index viable for journals on a large scale. But problems exist in their approach, some of them easily handled, some not.

  • By Kent Anderson
  • Apr 24, 2012
  • 18 Comments

Universal Citations

Italian researchers may have discovered the solution to comparing citation impact across disciplines. Is the Impact Factor next?

  • By Phil Davis
  • Nov 3, 2008
  • 6 Comments

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