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H-indices of Academic Pediatricians of Mashhad University of Medical Sciences

BACKGROUND: Web of Science, Scopus, and Google Scholar are three major sources which provide h-indices for individual researchers. In this study we aimed to compare the h-indices of the academic pediatricians of Mashhad University of Medical Sciences obtained from the above mentioned sources. METHOD...

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Autores principales: Hamidreza, Kianifar, Javad, Akhoondian, Ramin, Sadeghi, Leili, Zarifmahmoudi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: AVICENA 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3916174/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24554795
http://dx.doi.org/10.5455/aim.2013.21.234-236
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author Hamidreza, Kianifar
Javad, Akhoondian
Ramin, Sadeghi
Leili, Zarifmahmoudi
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Javad, Akhoondian
Ramin, Sadeghi
Leili, Zarifmahmoudi
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description BACKGROUND: Web of Science, Scopus, and Google Scholar are three major sources which provide h-indices for individual researchers. In this study we aimed to compare the h-indices of the academic pediatricians of Mashhad University of Medical Sciences obtained from the above mentioned sources. METHOD: Academic pediatrician who had at least 5 ISI indexed articles entered the study. Information required for evaluating the h-indices of the included researchers were retrieved from official websites Web of Science (WOS), Scopus, and Google Scholar (GS). Correlations between obtained h-indices from the mentioned databases were analyzed using Spearrman correlation coefficient. Ranks of each researcher according to each database h-index were also evaluated. RESULTS: In general, 16 pediatricians entered the study. Computed h-indices for individual authors were different in each database. Correlations between obtained h-indices were: 0.439 (ISI and Scopus), 0.488 (ISI and GS), and 0.810 (Scopus and GS). Despite differences between evaluated h-indices in each database for individual authors, the rankings according to these h-indices were almost similar. CONCLUSION: Although h-indices supplied by WOS, SCOPUS, and GS can be used interchangeably, their differences should be acknowledged. Setting up “ReasercherID” in WOS and “User profile” in GS, and giving regular feedback to SCOPUS can increase the validity of the calculated h-indices.
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spelling pubmed-39161742014-02-19 H-indices of Academic Pediatricians of Mashhad University of Medical Sciences Hamidreza, Kianifar Javad, Akhoondian Ramin, Sadeghi Leili, Zarifmahmoudi Acta Inform Med Original Paper BACKGROUND: Web of Science, Scopus, and Google Scholar are three major sources which provide h-indices for individual researchers. In this study we aimed to compare the h-indices of the academic pediatricians of Mashhad University of Medical Sciences obtained from the above mentioned sources. METHOD: Academic pediatrician who had at least 5 ISI indexed articles entered the study. Information required for evaluating the h-indices of the included researchers were retrieved from official websites Web of Science (WOS), Scopus, and Google Scholar (GS). Correlations between obtained h-indices from the mentioned databases were analyzed using Spearrman correlation coefficient. Ranks of each researcher according to each database h-index were also evaluated. RESULTS: In general, 16 pediatricians entered the study. Computed h-indices for individual authors were different in each database. Correlations between obtained h-indices were: 0.439 (ISI and Scopus), 0.488 (ISI and GS), and 0.810 (Scopus and GS). Despite differences between evaluated h-indices in each database for individual authors, the rankings according to these h-indices were almost similar. CONCLUSION: Although h-indices supplied by WOS, SCOPUS, and GS can be used interchangeably, their differences should be acknowledged. Setting up “ReasercherID” in WOS and “User profile” in GS, and giving regular feedback to SCOPUS can increase the validity of the calculated h-indices. AVICENA 2013-12-04 2013-12 /pmc/articles/PMC3916174/ /pubmed/24554795 http://dx.doi.org/10.5455/aim.2013.21.234-236 Text en © 2013 AVICENA http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Hamidreza, Kianifar
Javad, Akhoondian
Ramin, Sadeghi
Leili, Zarifmahmoudi
H-indices of Academic Pediatricians of Mashhad University of Medical Sciences
title H-indices of Academic Pediatricians of Mashhad University of Medical Sciences
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title_fullStr H-indices of Academic Pediatricians of Mashhad University of Medical Sciences
title_full_unstemmed H-indices of Academic Pediatricians of Mashhad University of Medical Sciences
title_short H-indices of Academic Pediatricians of Mashhad University of Medical Sciences
title_sort h-indices of academic pediatricians of mashhad university of medical sciences
topic Original Paper
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3916174/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24554795
http://dx.doi.org/10.5455/aim.2013.21.234-236
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