Bibliometrics Part Four: Introducing the H-Index
Pretty much all systems of statistical performance measurement face a trade-off between meaningfulness and simplicity. Straightforward, easy-to-understand statistics usually don’t tell you very much because the process of simplification inevitably leaves out important aspects of reality; statistics which take complexity into account are usually clunky and difficult to explain to a lay audience. So it is with bibliometrics. We can count scholarly publications, but what if someone is just publishing in obscure journals that no one reads? We can adjust
April 5, 2012
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