Communications of the ACM
Using the h-index to rank influential information scientistss: Brief Communication
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Eminence of scientists in the light of the h-index and other scientometric indicators
Journal of Information Science
What do we know about the h index?
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Main-path analysis and path-dependent transitions in HistCite™-based historiograms
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
A case study of the modified Hirsch index hm accounting for multiple coauthors
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
The π-index: a new indicator for assessing scientific impact
Journal of Information Science
Fractionalized counting of publications for the g-Index
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Revisiting the g-index: The average number of citations in the g-core
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
The Hirsch index and related impact measures
Annual Review of Information Science and Technology
Analyzing the flow of ideas and profiles of contributors in an open learning community
Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Learning Analytics and Knowledge
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This study enhances main path analysis by proposing several variants to the original approach. Main path analysis is a bibliometric method capable of tracing the most significant paths in a citation network and is commonly used to trace the development trajectory of a research field. We highlight several limitations of the original main path analysis and suggest new, complementary approaches to overcome these limitations. In contrast to the original local main path, the new approaches generate the global main path, the backward local main path, multiple main paths, and key-route main paths. Each of them is obtained via a perspective different from the original approach. By simultaneously conducting the new, complementary approaches, one uncovers the key development of the target discipline from a broader view. To demonstrate the value of these new approaches, we simultaneously apply them to a set of academic articles related to the Hirsch index. The results show that the integrated approach discovers several paths that are not captured by the original approach. Among these new approaches, the key-route approach is especially useful and hints at a divergence–convergence–divergence structure in the development of the Hirsch index. © 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.