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Fractionalized counting of publications for the g‐Index

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L. Egghe (2008) studied the h‐index (Hirsch index) and the g‐index, counting the authorship of cited articles in a fractional way. But his definition of the gF‐index for the case that the article count is fractionalized yielded values that were close to or even larger than the original g‐index. Here I propose an alternative definition by which the g‐index is modified in such a way that the resulting gm‐index is always smaller than the original g‐index. Based on the interpretation of the g‐index as the highest number of articles of a scientist that received on average g or more citations, in the specification of the new gm‐index the articles are counted fractionally not only for the rank but also for the average.

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  • Michael Schreiber, 2009. "Fractionalized counting of publications for the g‐Index," Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, Association for Information Science & Technology, vol. 60(10), pages 2145-2150, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:jamist:v:60:y:2009:i:10:p:2145-2150
    DOI: 10.1002/asi.21119
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    1. Muhammad Salman & Mohammad Masroor Ahmed & Muhammad Tanvir Afzal, 2021. "Assessment of author ranking indices based on multi-authorship," Scientometrics, Springer;Akadémiai Kiadó, vol. 126(5), pages 4153-4172, May.
    2. Jingda Ding & Chao Liu & Goodluck Asobenie Kandonga, 2020. "Exploring the limitations of the h-index and h-type indexes in measuring the research performance of authors," Scientometrics, Springer;Akadémiai Kiadó, vol. 122(3), pages 1303-1322, March.

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