1. Revisiting h measured on UK LIS and IR academics.
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Sanderson, Mark
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INFORMATION retrieval , *LIBRIS (Information retrieval system) , *DATABASES , *COMPUTER science , *INFORMATION science , *INFORMATION technology - Abstract
A brief communication appearing in this journal ranked UK-based LIS and (some) IR academics by their h-index using data derived from the Thomson ISI Web of Science™ (WoS). In this brief communication, the same academics were re-ranked, using other popular citation databases. It was found that for academics who publish more in computer science forums, their h was significantly different due to highly cited papers missed by WoS; consequently, their rank changed substantially. The study was widened to a broader set of UK-based LIS and IR academics in which results showed similar statistically significant differences. A variant of h, hmx, was introduced that allowed a ranking of the academics using all citation databases together. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2008
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