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

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posted on 2023-06-08, 11:05 authored by Richard TolRichard Tol
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.

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  • Published

Journal

Scientometrics

ISSN

0138-9130

Publisher

Springer Verlag

Issue

2

Volume

80

Page range

317-324

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  • Economics Publications

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  • Yes

Legacy Posted Date

2012-04-17

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