Thor, A. ; Bornmann, L.

The calculation of the single publication h index and related performances measures: A Web application based on Google Scholar

Online Information Review 35(2), 2011

2011 / 01

Paper

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Abstract

The calculation of the single publication h index and related performances measures: A Web application based on Google Scholar data
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Purpose: The single publication h index has been introduced by Schubert (2009) as the h index calculated for the list of citing publications of one single publication.
Approach: In this paper, we present a Web application where the single publication h index and related performance measures (the single publication m index, h2 lower, h2 center, and h2 upper) can be automatically calculated for any publication indexed by Google Scholar.
Findings: The use of the application is demonstrated by means of the citation performance of two publications.
Originality: To our knowledge, our Web application is the first instrument to calculate automatically the single publication h index and related performance measures based on Google Scholar data. This service is a real novelty especially from the perspective of the related performance measures.