The h-index and its alternatives: An application to the 100 most prolific economists

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Tol, Richard S J (2009) The h-index and its alternatives: An application to the 100 most prolific economists. Scientometrics, 80 (2). pp. 317-324. ISSN 0138-9130

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Abstract

The h-index is a recent but already quite popular way of measuring research quality and quantity. However, it discounts highly-cited papers. The g-index corrects for this, but it is sensitivity to the number of never-cited papers. Besides, h- or g-index-based rankings have a large number of ties. Therefore, this paper introduces two new indices, and tests their performance for the 100 most prolific economists. A researcher has a t-number (f-number) of t (f) if t (f) is the largest number for which it holds that she has t (f) publications for which the geometric (harmonic) average number of citations is at least t (f). The new indices overcome the shortcomings of the old indices.

Item Type: Article
Schools and Departments: University of Sussex Business School > Economics
Subjects: Z Bibliography. Library Science. Information Resources > Z0665 Library Science. Information Science
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Depositing User: Richard Tol
Date Deposited: 17 Apr 2012 15:17
Last Modified: 17 Apr 2012 15:17
URI: http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/38272
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