Using the h-index to rank influential information scientistss: Brief Communication

  • Authors:

  • Blaise Cronin;Lokman Meho

  • Affiliations:

  • School of Library and Information Science, Indiana University, Bloomington IN 47401;School of Library and Information Science, Indiana University, Bloomington IN 47401

  • Venue:
  • Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

The authors apply a new bibliometric measure, the h-index (Hirsch, 2005), to the literature of information science. Faculty rankings based on raw citation counts are compared with those based on h-counts. There is a strong positive correlation between the two sets of rankings. It is shown how the h-index can be used to express the broad impact of a scholar's research output over time in more nuanced fashion than straight citation counts. © 2006 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.