Background Understanding the impact of a publication by using bibliometric indices
becomes an essential activity not only for universities and research institutes but also for …

Citation impact indicators nowadays play an important role in research evaluation, and
consequently these indicators have received a lot of attention in the bibliometric and …

Scientometrics is the study of the quantitative aspects of the process of science as a
communication system. It is centrally, but not only, concerned with the analysis of citations in …

The h-index and some related bibliometric indices have received a lot of attention from the
scientific community in the last few years due to some of their good properties (easiness of …

This paper compares the h-indices of a list of highly-cited Israeli researchers based on
citations counts retrieved from the Web of Science, Scopus and Google Scholar respectively …

We study the distributions of citations received by a single publication within several
disciplines, spanning broad areas of science. We show that the probability that an article is …

Abstract Jorge Hirsch (2005a, 2005b) recently proposed the h index to quantify the research
output of individual scientists. The new index has attracted a lot of attention in the scientific …

Reputation is an important social construct in science, which enables informed quality
assessments of both publications and careers of scientists in the absence of complete …

Background The h-index has already been used by major citation databases to evaluate the
academic performance of individual scientists. Although effective and simple, the h-index …

In this study, we examined empirical results on the h index and its most important variants in
order to determine whether the variants developed are associated with an incremental …