Comparative analysis between impact factor and h-index for pharmacology and psychiatry journals

Pascal Bador; Thierry Lafouge

doi:10.1007/s11192-009-0058-2

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Comparative analysis between impact factor and h-index for pharmacology and psychiatry journals

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Pascal Bador

Pascal Bador

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Thierry Lafouge

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Pages:: 65–79

Online Publication Date:: 12 Jun 2009

Publication Date:: 01 Jul 2010

Article Category:: Research Article

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-009-0058-2

Keywords:: Journal impact factor; Hirsch index; Journal ranking

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Abstract

Using strictly the same parameters (identical two publication years (2004–2005) and identical one-year citation window (2006)), IF 2006 was compared with h-index 2006 for two samples of “Pharmacology and Pharmacy” and “Psychiatry” journals computed from the ISI Web of Science. For the two samples, the IF and the h-index rankings of the journals are very different. The correlation coefficient between the IF and the h-index is high for Psychiatry but lower for Pharmacology. The linearity test performed between the h-index and

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showed the great sensitivity of the model compared with α. The IF and h-index can be completely complementary when evaluating journals of the same scientific discipline.

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