Document (#33868)

Author

Sanderson, M.

Title

Revisiting h measured on UK LIS and IR academics

Source

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. 59(2008) no.7, S.1184-1190

Year

2008

Series

Brief communication

Abstract

A brief communication appearing in this journal ranked UK-based LIS and (some) IR academics by their h-index using data derived from the Thomson ISI Web of Science(TM) (WoS). In this brief communication, the same academics were re-ranked, using other popular citation databases. It was found that for academics who publish more in computer science forums, their h was significantly different due to highly cited papers missed by WoS; consequently, their rank changed substantially. The study was widened to a broader set of UK-based LIS and IR academics in which results showed similar statistically significant differences. A variant of h, hmx, was introduced that allowed a ranking of the academics using all citation databases together.

Theme

Informetrie

Object

Web of Science
h-index

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