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Revisiting h measured on UK LIS and IR academics

Author(s) -

Sanderson Mark

Publication year - 2008

Publication title -

journal of the american society for information science and technology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 1532-2890

pISSN - 1532-2882

DOI - 10.1002/asi.20771

Subject(s) - ranking (information retrieval) , library science , citation , rank (graph theory) , publication , web of science , information retrieval , citation analysis , set (abstract data type) , journal ranking , computer science , sociology , world wide web , political science , mathematics , medline , combinatorics , law , programming language

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™ (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 , h mx , was introduced that allowed a ranking of the academics using all citation databases together.

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