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by Tibor Braun, Wolfgang Glänzel and András Schubert

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A Hirsch-type index for journals

Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest Loránd Eötvös University, Budapest, Steunpunt O&O Statistieken, K. U. Leuven, Leuven, Hungary.

Email: Tibor Braun - braun@mail.iif.hu
The Scientist 2005, 19(22):8

Published

21 November 2005

Re: the h index.[1] We suggest that a h-type index – equal to h if you have published h papers, each of which has at least h citations – would be a useful supplement to journal impact factors. First, it is robust and therefore insensitive to an accidental excess of uncited papers and also to one or several outstandingly highly cited papers. Second, it combines the effect of "quantity" (number of publications) and "quality" (citation rate) in a rather specific, balanced way that should reduce the apparent "overrating" of some small review journals.


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