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The h-index July 20th, 2008 by Christian Zimmermann There are many ways to rank researchers, but rarely has one been adopted as fast as the h-index. It has been introduced by physicist Jorge E. Hirsch in August 2005, and is defined by h, with h works from an author having at least h citations.

No amount of statistical work will overcome the various inadequacies in the quality of data collected and how inappropriate these might be for measuring success with Twitter, blogging, Facebook or Xing. Most often when ranking social media, no specific model is specified in advance.

No amount of statistical work will overcome the various inadequacies in the quality of data collected and how inappropriate these might be for measuring success with Twitter, blogging, Facebook or Xing. Most often when ranking social media, no specific model is specified in advance.

I just found this quote: Thus, while it is incorrect to say that the impact factor gives no information about individual papers in a journal, the information is surprisingly vague and can be dramatically misleading. (Adler et al. 2008) The report is a very critical discussion about the use and abuse of impact factors and the h-index.

A thoughtful report " about the use and misuse of citation data in the assessment of scientific research." "We do not dismiss citation statistics as a tool for assessing the quality of research—citation data and statistics can provide some valuable information.

We all are aware of h-index; John Hawks brings to our attention another indicator of scientific output (which, for obvious reasons, I like to call the b-index, and is the number of beers somebody drinks per hour in a party): According to the study, published in February in Oikos, a highly respected