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Of The H-Index And Its Alternatives: An Application To The 100 Most Prolific Economists

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Richard S.J. Tol () (Economic and Social Research Institute, Dublin, Ireland)

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The h-index is a recent but already quite popular way of measuring research quality and quantity. However, it discounts highly-cited papers. The g-index corrects for this, but it is sensitivity to the number of never-cited papers. Besides, h- or g-index-based rankings have a large number of ties. Therefore, this paper introduces two new indices, and tests their performance for the 100 most prolific economists. A researcher has a t-number (f-number) of t (f) if t (f) is the largest number for which it holds that she has t (f) publications for which the geometric (harmonic) average number of citations is at least t (f). The new indices overcome the shortcomings of the old indices.

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Paper provided by Research unit Sustainability and Global Change, Hamburg University in its series Working Papers with number FNU-146.

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Length: 16 pages
Date of creation: Sep 2007
Date of revision: Sep 2007
Publication status: Forthcoming, Scientometrics
Handle: RePEc:sgc:wpaper:146

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  1. Frances Ruane & Richard S.J. Tol, 2007. "Refined (Successive) H-Indices: An Application To Economics In The Republic Of Ireland," Working Papers FNU-130, Research unit Sustainability and Global Change, Hamburg University, revised Mar 2007. [Downloadable!]
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