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View SchemaAn index to quantify an individual's scientific research valid across disciplines
| Authors | Pablo Diniz Batista, Monica Guimaraes Campiteli, Osame Kinouchi, Alexandre Souto Martinez |
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| ArXiv ID | physics/0509048 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0509048 |
| DOI | 10.1007/s11192-006-0090-4 |
| Journal | Scientometrics, Vol. 68, No. 1 179--189 (2006) |
Abstract
The number h of papers with at least h citations has been proposed to evaluate individual's scientific research production. This index is robust in several ways but yet strongly dependent on the research field. We propose a complementary index hI = h^2/N_t, with N_t being the total number of authors in the considered h papers. A researcher with index hI has hI papers with at least hI citation if he/she had published alone. We have obtained the rank plots of h and hI for four Brazilian scientific communities. Contrasting to the h-index curve, the hI index present a perfect data collapse into a unique allowing comparison among different research areas.
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