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A publication index that is independent of age

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  • Helmut A. Abt

    (Kitt Peak National Observatory)

Abstract

The Hirsch h-index is widely used to measure a researcher’s major publications. It has the advantage of being easy to compute. However, it increases steeply with time and therefore does not allow a comparison of young and mature researchers. We find that if the h-index is divided by the number of decades since publication of the researcher’s first paper, the result is statistically constant with age. Then the resulting index can be compared for young and old researchers. Its accuracy is the same as that of the h-index and is as easy to compute as the h-index.

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  • Helmut A. Abt, 2012. "A publication index that is independent of age," Scientometrics, Springer;Akadémiai Kiadó, vol. 91(3), pages 863-868, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:scient:v:91:y:2012:i:3:d:10.1007_s11192-011-0525-4
    DOI: 10.1007/s11192-011-0525-4
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    Cited by:

    1. García-Pérez, Miguel A., 2012. "An extension of the h index that covers the tail and the top of the citation curve and allows ranking researchers with similar h," Journal of Informetrics, Elsevier, vol. 6(4), pages 689-699.
    2. L. Egghe, 2013. "On the correction of the h-index for career length," Scientometrics, Springer;Akadémiai Kiadó, vol. 96(2), pages 563-571, August.
    3. Nadia Simoes & Nuno Crespo, 2020. "A flexible approach for measuring author-level publishing performance," Scientometrics, Springer;Akadémiai Kiadó, vol. 122(1), pages 331-355, January.

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