| Issue |
EPL
Volume 78, Number 3, May 2007
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|---|---|---|
| Article Number | 30002 | |
| Number of page(s) | 6 | |
| Section | General | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/78/30002 | |
| Published online | 11 April 2007 | |
Self-citation corrections for the Hirsch index
Institut für Physik, Technische Universität Chemnitz - 09107 Chemnitz, Germany
Received:
23
November
2006
Accepted:
12
March
2007
I propose to sharpen the index h, suggested by Hirsch as a useful index to characterize the scientific output of a researcher, by excluding the self-citations. Performing a self-experiment and also discussing in detail two anonymous data sets, it is shown that self-citations can significantly reduce the h index in contrast to Hirsch's expectations. This result is confirmed by an analysis of 13 further data sets.
PACS: 01.30.-y – Physics literature and publications / 01.85.+f – Careers in physics and sciences / 01.90.+g – Other topics of general interest
© Europhysics Letters Association, 2007
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