A Preliminary Study of the Relationship between the h-Index and Excess Citations

作者:Yuan, Xiaoyuan*; Hua, Weina; Rousseau, Ronald; Ye, Fred Y
来源:CANADIAN JOURNAL OF INFORMATION AND LIBRARY SCIENCE-REVUE CANADIENNE DES SCIENCES DE L INFORMATION ET DE BIBLIOTHECONOMIE, 2014, 38(2): 127-144.
DOI:10.1353/ils.2014.0011

摘要

This article presents a study of the average number of excess citations of papers in the h-core, denoted as e(2)/h and the ratio between the e-area and the h-area, denoted as e(2)/h(2). Real-world citation data from different countries are studied. It is found that at the country level, a small set of publications generate a disproportionately large amount of citations. Although different countries have different e(2)/h(2) values in different fields, average e(2)/h(2) values are all above 1. The e(2)/h values vary widely between fields, reflecting the general citation density in these fields. For cumulative data e(2)/h(2) and e(2)/h values each converge quickly. Neither a shifted Zipf nor an exponential model could fit the data.

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