Count highly-cited papers instead of papers with h citations: use normalized citation counts and compare “like with like”!

Teixeira da Silva and Dobránszki (Scientometrics. 10.1007/s11192-018-2680-3, 2018) describe practical problems in using the h-index for the purpose of research evaluation. For example, they discuss the h-index differences among the bibliometric databases. In this Letter to the Editor, we argue for a...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Bornmann, Lutz, Leydesdorff, Loet
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Netherlands 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5880847/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29628536
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11192-018-2682-1
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Sumario:Teixeira da Silva and Dobránszki (Scientometrics. 10.1007/s11192-018-2680-3, 2018) describe practical problems in using the h-index for the purpose of research evaluation. For example, they discuss the h-index differences among the bibliometric databases. In this Letter to the Editor, we argue for abstaining from using the h-index. One can use normalized indicators instead.

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