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A Google Scholar h‐index for journals: An alternative metric to measure journal impact in economics and business

Author(s) -

Harzing AnneWil,

van der Wal Ron

Publication year - 2009

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.20953

Subject(s) - impact factor , metric (unit) , index (typography) , measure (data warehouse) , field (mathematics) , bibliometrics , sample (material) , computer science , informetrics , library science , data science , economics , world wide web , marketing , mathematics , business , data mining , political science , physics , pure mathematics , law , thermodynamics

We propose a new data source (Google Scholar) and metric (Hirsch's h‐index) to assess journal impact in the field of economics and business. A systematic comparison between the Google Scholar h‐index and the ISI Journal Impact Factor for a sample of 838 journals in economics and business shows that the former provides a more accurate and comprehensive measure of journal impact.

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