TY - JOUR
T1 - The h-index and its alternatives
T2 - An application to the 100 most prolific economists
AU - Tol, Richard S.J.
PY - 2009/7
Y1 - 2009/7
N2 - The h-index is a recent but already quite popular way of measuring research quality and quantity. However, it discounts highly-cited papers. The g-index corrects for this, but it is sensitivity to the number of never-cited papers. Besides, h- or g-index-based rankings have a large number of ties. Therefore, this paper introduces two new indices, and tests their performance for the 100 most prolific economists. A researcher has a t-number (f-number) of t (f) if t (f) is the largest number for which it holds that she has t (f) publications for which the geometric (harmonic) average number of citations is at least t (f). The new indices overcome the shortcomings of the old indices.
AB - The h-index is a recent but already quite popular way of measuring research quality and quantity. However, it discounts highly-cited papers. The g-index corrects for this, but it is sensitivity to the number of never-cited papers. Besides, h- or g-index-based rankings have a large number of ties. Therefore, this paper introduces two new indices, and tests their performance for the 100 most prolific economists. A researcher has a t-number (f-number) of t (f) if t (f) is the largest number for which it holds that she has t (f) publications for which the geometric (harmonic) average number of citations is at least t (f). The new indices overcome the shortcomings of the old indices.
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U2 - 10.1007/s11192-008-2079-7
DO - 10.1007/s11192-008-2079-7
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:70349327929
SN - 0138-9130
VL - 80
SP - 317
EP - 324
JO - Scientometrics
JF - Scientometrics
IS - 2
ER -