What do we know about the h index?

Authors:
Lutz Bornmann;Hans-Dieter Daniel
Affiliations:
ETH Zurich, Professorship of Social Psychology and Research in Higher Education, Zurich, Switzerland;ETH Zurich, Professorship of Social Psychology and Research in Higher Education, Zurich, Switzerland, and Evaluation Office, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Venue:
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Year:
2007

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Abstract

Jorge Hirsch (2005a, 2005b) recently proposed the h index to quantify the research output of individual scientists. The new index has attracted a lot of attention in the scientific community. The claim that the h index in a single number provides a good representation of the scientific lifetime achievement of a scientist as well as the (supposed) simple calculation of the h index using common literature databases lead to the danger of improper use of the index. We describe the advantages and disadvantages of the h index and summarize the studies on the convergent validity of this index. We also introduce corrections and complements as well as single-number alternatives to the h index.