A modification of the h-index: the hm-index accounts for multi-authored manuscripts

@misc{citeulike:2825148, abstract = {In order to take multiple co-authorship appropriately into account, a straightforward modification of the Hirsch index was recently proposed. Fractionalised counting of the papers yields an appropriate measure which is called the hm-index. The effect of this procedure is compared in the present work with other variants of the h-index and found to be superior to the fractionalised counting of citations and to the normalization of the h-index with the average number of authors in the h-core. Three fictitious examples for model cases and one empirical case are analysed.}, author = {Schreiber, Michael }, citeulike-article-id = {2825148}, eprint = {0805.2000}, keywords = {academia, citation, citations, h-index, publishing, scholarly}, month = {May}, posted-at = {2008-05-23 12:54:27}, priority = {2}, title = {A modification of the h-index: the hm-index accounts for multi-authored manuscripts}, url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/0805.2000}, year = {2008} }

TY - ELEC ID - citeulike:2825148 L3 - citeulike-article-id:2825148 TI - A modification of the h-index: the hm-index accounts for multi-authored manuscripts N2 - In order to take multiple co-authorship appropriately into account, a straightforward modification of the Hirsch index was recently proposed. Fractionalised counting of the papers yields an appropriate measure which is called the hm-index. The effect of this procedure is compared in the present work with other variants of the h-index and found to be superior to the fractionalised counting of citations and to the normalization of the h-index with the average number of authors in the h-core. Three fictitious examples for model cases and one empirical case are analysed. KW - academia KW - citation KW - citations KW - h-index KW - publishing KW - scholarly AU - Schreiber, Michael PY - 2008/May/14/ UR - http://arxiv.org/abs/0805.2000 ER -