Enhancing the h index for the objective assessment of healthcare researcher performance and impact
Author(s) -
Vanash Patel,
Hutan Ashrafian,
Lutz Bornmann,
Rüdiger Mutz,
Jonathan Makanjuola,
Petros Skapinakis,
Ara Darzi,
Thanos Athanasiou
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
journal of the royal society of medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.38
H-Index - 81
eISSN - 1758-1095
pISSN - 0141-0768
DOI - 10.1258/jrsm.2012.120253
Subject(s) - citation , index (typography) , health care , value (mathematics) , bibliometrics , statistics , rank (graph theory) , medicine , construct validity , ranking (information retrieval) , citation analysis , psychology , mathematics , computer science , information retrieval , library science , psychometrics , combinatorics , political science , world wide web , law
To investigate whether the h index (a bibliometric tool which is increasingly used to assess and appraise an individual's research performance) could be improved to better measure the academic performance and citation profile for individual healthcare researchers.
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