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Scientometric Dilemma: Is H-index Adequate for Scientific Validity of Academic’s Work?

H-index is an index that attempts to measure the productivity and impact of published work of scientists. H-index has several advantages – it combines productivity with echo, is not sensitive to extreme values in terms of articles without citation or to articles with above-average number of citation...

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Autores principales: Masic, Izet, Begic, Edin
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: AVICENA, d.o.o., Sarajevo 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5037980/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27708482
http://dx.doi.org/10.5455/aim.2016.24.228-232
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description H-index is an index that attempts to measure the productivity and impact of published work of scientists. H-index has several advantages – it combines productivity with echo, is not sensitive to extreme values in terms of articles without citation or to articles with above-average number of citations and directly enables the identification of the most relevant articles with regard to the number of citations received. H-index has great potential in the academic community, but it still has not realistic indicator of the quality of work of one author. Authors described most used indices for scientific assessment.
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spelling pubmed-50379802016-10-05 Scientometric Dilemma: Is H-index Adequate for Scientific Validity of Academic’s Work? Masic, Izet Begic, Edin Acta Inform Med Editorial H-index is an index that attempts to measure the productivity and impact of published work of scientists. H-index has several advantages – it combines productivity with echo, is not sensitive to extreme values in terms of articles without citation or to articles with above-average number of citations and directly enables the identification of the most relevant articles with regard to the number of citations received. H-index has great potential in the academic community, but it still has not realistic indicator of the quality of work of one author. Authors described most used indices for scientific assessment. AVICENA, d.o.o., Sarajevo 2016-07-16 2016-08 /pmc/articles/PMC5037980/ /pubmed/27708482 http://dx.doi.org/10.5455/aim.2016.24.228-232 Text en Copyright: © 2016 Izet Masic and Edin Begic http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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