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A new index to use in conjunction with the h‐index to account for an author's relative contribution to publications with high impact
Author(s) -
Crispo Erika
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
journal of the association for information science and technology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.903
H-Index - 145
eISSN - 2330-1643
pISSN - 2330-1635
DOI - 10.1002/asi.23426
Subject(s) - index (typography) , position (finance) , impact factor , statistics , field (mathematics) , computer science , library science , mathematics , political science , business , law , world wide web , finance , pure mathematics
The h‐index was devised to represent a scholar's contributions to his field with respect to the number of publications and citations. It does not, however, take into consideration the scholar's position in the authorship list. I recommend a new supplementary index to score academics, representing the relative contribution to the papers with impact, be reported alongside the h‐index. I call this index the AP ‐index, and it is simply defined as the average position in which an academic appears in authorship lists, on articles that factor in to that academic's h‐index.