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L. Egghe Universiteit Hasselt (UHasselt), Campus Diepenbeek, Agoralaan 3590, Diepenbeek, Belgium
Universiteit Antwerpen (UA), IBW, Stadscampus, Venusstraat 35, 2000, Antwerpen, Belgium

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Abstract

If we have two information production processes with the same h-index, random removal of items causes one system to have a higher h-index than the other system while random removal of sources causes the opposite effect. In a Lotkaian framework we prove formulae for the h-index in case of random removal of items and in case of random removal of sources. In conclusion, we warn for the use of the h-index in case of incomplete data sets.

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  • Braun, T, Glänzel, W, Schubert, A 2006 A Hirsch-type index for journals. Scientometrics 69 1 169173 .

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  • Egghe, L 2005 Power laws in the information production process: Lotkaian informetrics Elsevier Oxford.

  • Egghe, L 2008 The influence of transformations on the h-index and the g-index. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 59 8 13041312 .

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  • Egghe, L 2008 Examples of simple transformations of the h-index: Qualitative and quantitative conclusions and consequences for other indices. Journal of Informetrics 2 2 136148 .

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  • Egghe, L. (2010a). The Hirsch-index and related impact measures. In B. Cronin (ed.), Annual review of information science and technology (Vol. 44, pp. 65114). Medford: Information Today, Inc.

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  • Egghe, L 2010 Influence of adding or deleting items and sources on the h-index. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 61 2 370373 .

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  • Egghe, L. (2010c). A disadvantage of h-type indices for comparing the impact of two researchers Research Evaluation (to appear).

  • Egghe, L. (2010d). Mathematical derivation of the scale-dependence of the h-index and other h-type indices Scientometrics, 87(2), 287-292.

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  • Egghe, L, Rousseau, R 2006 An informetric model for the Hirsch-index. Scientometrics 69 1 121129 .

  • Henzinger, M, Suñol, J, Weber, I 2010 The stability of the h-index. Scientometrics 84 2 465479 .

  • Hirsch, JE 2005 An index to quantify an individual's scientific research output. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 102 46 1656916572 .

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  • AFJ van Raan 2006 Comparison of the Hirsch-index with standard bibliometric indicators and with peer judgment for 147 chemistry groups. Scientometrics 67 3 491502.

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Scientometrics
Language English
Size B5
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1978
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1
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12
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG
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ISSN 0138-9130 (Print)
ISSN 1588-2861 (Online)

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