Research Tools: H-Index - Research Impact and Citation Analysis - LibGuides at University of Newcastle Library

Wednesday, 3 June 2015

H-Index - Research Impact and Citation Analysis - LibGuides at University of Newcastle Library

Source: http://libguides.newcastle.edu.au/content.php?pid=274077&sid=2331402

H-Index

Jorge Hirsch proposed the h-index or Hirsch index in 2005 as a means of quantifying the impact and productivity of a scientist. The h-index is calculated on the number and impact of a researcher’s publications. An h-index of 40 means that a researcher has published 40 papers that each have at least 40 citations.

Several resources - Web of Science Citation Indexes, Scopus, Google Scholar (via 'Google Scholar Citations' and 'Publish or Perish') and Microsoft Academic Search - include the necessary citation data to calculate a h-index score.

More Information: Hirsch, J. (2005). An index to quantify an individual's scientific research output. PNAS 102 (46): 16569-16572.

The
h-index of an author will be different in each of these resources,
since the calculation is based on the indexed content within each
resource.

Resources that provide H-Index Scores

	Web of Science includes the Science Citation Index; Social Sciences Citation Index; Arts & Humanities Citation Index; Conference Proceedings Citation Index- Science; Conference Proceedings Citation Index- Social Science & Humanities Covers the period 1956+ Updated weekly Coverage of over 10,000 high-impact journals in the sciences, social sciences, and arts and humanities, as well as international proceedings coverage for over 120,000 conferences. Tutorials Cited Reference Searching Tutorial
	Scopus - Abstract and citation database to scientific, technical, medical and social sciences literature including arts & humanities. Contains 45.5 million records, 70% with abstracts, nearly 19,500 titles from 5,000 publishers worldwide, 70% of content is pulled from international sources, includes over 4.6 million conference papers. Covers the period 1996+ Updated weekly Tutorials and Guides How to FInd an H-Index (in Scopus) Using Scopus for Bibliometric Analysis: A Practical Guide
	Publish or Perish is a free software program that retrieves and analyzes academic citations. POP uses Google Scholar to obtain the raw citations.
Citations	Google Scholar Citations provide a simple way for authors to keep track of citations to their articles. You can check who is citing your publications, graph citations over time, and compute several citation metrics. You can also make your profile public, so that it may appear in Google Scholar results when people search for your name, e.g., richard feynman.
	Microsoft Academic Search allows authors to create profiles - total citations, G-Index and H-Index are automatically calculated . See which University of Newcastle researchers have setup Microsoft Academic Search accounts.