Scopus(r), has announced that the h-index will be incorporated into Scopus soon and will include visual aids to assist in interpreting consistency and relevance. The h-index, considers the publication records of an individual, the number of papers published over n years and the number of citations for each paper. The result is a single number, the “h-index”. To provide the user with additional clarity Scopus has included a set of visual aids that present a transparent overview of citation and publication patterns over time; revealing whether the h-index is dependent on a few highly cited papers or that the author’s papers have a relatively consistent volume of citations.
“Take my article on the h-index as an example, it was “hidden” in the Los Alamos preprint server and still gained a large number of citations. It goes to show that if work is unique and interesting then people will find it. It is of course also true that citation counts can contain misleading information, for instance when many co-authors or self citations are involved, so it is important that they are not considered in isolation; however they are still used and form a basic quantitative measure of a researcher’s output.” –Jorge Hirsch, developer of the h-index.
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