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.
Designed to identify individuals who might be gaming their h-index score, the s-index may do more harm than good.
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?
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.
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.
Italian researchers may have discovered the solution to comparing citation impact across disciplines. Is the Impact Factor next?