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Revisiting h measured on UK LIS and IR academics

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A brief communication appearing in this journal ranked UK‐based LIS and (some) IR academics by their h‐index using data derived from the Thomson ISI Web of Science™ (WoS). In this brief communication, the same academics were re‐ranked, using other popular citation databases. It was found that for academics who publish more in computer science forums, their h was significantly different due to highly cited papers missed by WoS; consequently, their rank changed substantially. The study was widened to a broader set of UK‐based LIS and IR academics in which results showed similar statistically significant differences. A variant of h, hmx, was introduced that allowed a ranking of the academics using all citation databases together.

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  • Mark Sanderson, 2008. "Revisiting h measured on UK LIS and IR academics," Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, Association for Information Science & Technology, vol. 59(7), pages 1184-1190, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:jamist:v:59:y:2008:i:7:p:1184-1190
    DOI: 10.1002/asi.20771
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    1. Bornmann, Lutz & Mutz, Rüdiger & Hug, Sven E. & Daniel, Hans-Dieter, 2011. "A multilevel meta-analysis of studies reporting correlations between the h index and 37 different h index variants," Journal of Informetrics, Elsevier, vol. 5(3), pages 346-359.
    2. Li, Jiang & Sanderson, Mark & Willett, Peter & Norris, Michael & Oppenheim, Charles, 2010. "Ranking of library and information science researchers: Comparison of data sources for correlating citation data, and expert judgments," Journal of Informetrics, Elsevier, vol. 4(4), pages 554-563.
    3. Bornmann, Lutz & Marx, Werner & Schier, Hermann & Rahm, Erhard & Thor, Andreas & Daniel, Hans-Dieter, 2009. "Convergent validity of bibliometric Google Scholar data in the field of chemistry—Citation counts for papers that were accepted by Angewandte Chemie International Edition or rejected but published els," Journal of Informetrics, Elsevier, vol. 3(1), pages 27-35.

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