An index that attempts to measure both the productivity and impact of the published work of a scientist or scholar.
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Are alternative metrics taken seriously by hiring committies?
Knowing that there are some members of hiring committees here, I am hoping for some insights.
Having read Rise of Altmetrics, I started to wonder what would be the best way to measure the impact on ...
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How to find the h-index of a professor?
I am an Computer Science undergraduate student and I am looking for my potential mentor for my PhD study. I guess besides research interest, personality etc., h-index is an important factor one should ...
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Are academic indicators (h-index, impact factor, etc) really adopted by institutions? Currently used? And how?
Academic indicators (h-index, impact factor, modified h-indexes, etc) have a long string of criticism by academics and not (see here, here or here).
Instead of debating (endlessly) on how "not ...
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Which bibliometrics index to trust more?
We've already discussed about which bibliometric indeces are diffused the most, and how they work.
We all know that, along the most common h-index, there are many other parameters deriving from it or ...
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What are the common productivity measures of a scientist, like h-index?
I am aware of h-index. I was wondering what other types of scores are both widely and rarely used to measure the impact of a scientist?
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