A Perfect Hirsch-type Index? Experiences Using the Tapered h-Index (hT)

Hua, Ping-huan, Wan, Jin-kun and Wu, Jun-hong A Perfect Hirsch-type Index? Experiences Using the Tapered h-Index (hT). Chinese Journal of Scientific and Technical Periodicals, 2010, vol. 21, n. 1, pp. 33-37. [Journal article (Paginated)]

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English abstract

: The hT -index proposed by Anderson et al. includes all citations, yet scoring them in a way that is comparable with the h-index. This new index is superior to the h-index proposed by Hirsch because: 1) it takes all citations into account; 2) it has no problems with special cases, such as situations with only a few highly cited papers; or the case that, because of a lack of publications the h-index is set artificially equal to the number of publications; 3) it has a higher resolution than the h-index. In order to illustrate our point the hT – indices of more than 6,000 Chinese academic journals have been calculated and results are discussed.

Chinese abstract

由T. R. Anderson等人提出的hT指数将全部被引频次都计算在内,但对它们采用的记分方式仍与h指数基本相同。这一新的指数优于J. E. Hirsch于2005年提出的h指数, 因为: ①从理论上说,它包含了全部的被引频次; ②它可适用于一些特殊的情况,例如只有少量高被引文章,避免出现假h指数; ③它具有较高的分辨能力等等。对 6 000多种中国学术期刊的hT指数进行了计算,并对计算结果进行了讨论。

Item type: Journal article (Paginated)
Keywords: h - index, tapered h -index, evaluation, journals, bibliometric indicators, informetrics
Subjects: B. Information use and sociology of information > BB. Bibliometric methods
Depositing user: Ronald Rousseau
Date deposited: 13 Feb 2010
Last modified: 02 Oct 2014 12:16
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10760/14251

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