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     My articles related to the h-index and h-type indices

If there is no link to the article you may always ask me a copy.

Ricardo Arencibia-Jorge and Ronald Rousseau. Influence of individual researchers' visibility on institutional impact: an example of Prathap's approach to successive h-indices. Scientometrics (to appear).

An application and some comments on Prathap's approach.

Jing-chun Chai, Ping-huan Hua, Ronald Rousseau and Jin-kun Wan.  The adapted pure h-index. Proceedings of WIS 2008, Berlin. Fourth International Conference on Webometrics, Informetrics and Scientometrics & Ninth COLLNET Meeting (H. Kretschmer & F. Havemann, eds.). Open Access. http://www.collnet.de/Berlin-2008/ChaiWIS2008aph.pdf

A continuation of our investigations related to the pure h-index, i.e. taking co-authorship into account.

L. Egghe & R. Rousseau. An informetric model for the Hirsch-index. Scientometrics, 69(1), 2006, 121-129.

The Egghe-Rousseau power law model about the relation between h and the total number of publications (based on power laws)

L. Egghe and R. Rousseau. An h-index weighted by citation impact. Information Processing and Management 44(2), 2008, 770-780.

L. Egghe, R. Rousseau and S. Rousseau. TOP-curves. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 58(6), 777-785, 2007.

The TOP consists of the h-core. The article itself is related to Lorenz curves and poverty lines.

Bihui Jin, Liming Liang, Ronald Rousseau & Leo Egghe. The R- and AR-indices: complementing the h-index. Chinese Science Bulletin , 52(6), 855-863, 2007.

Introduces the R-index an improvement on the A-index, the g-index and the h-index

Bihui Jin  and Rousseau, R. R zhi shu, AR zhi shu: h zhi shu gong neng kuo zhan de bu chong zhi biao (R-index and AR-index: complementing indicators to h-index).Science Focus, 2(3), 1- 8 (2007)

Further work on the AR-index.

Yuxian Liu and R. Rousseau. Hirsch-type  indices and library management: the case of Tongji University Library . In Proceedings of ISSI 2007 (Torres-Salinas & Moed, eds). Madrid: CINDOC-CSIC, pp. 514-522.

Applies the h- and the g-index to library loan data. Shows that Kosmulski's H²-index is not powerful enough.

Yuxian Liu and Ronald Rousseau. Properties of Hirsch-type indices: the case of library classification categories. Scientometrics (2009), 79(2), p. 235-248.

Continues the investigation of the previous article by incorporating the R-index.

Yuxian Liu and Ronald Rousseau. Definitions of time series in citation analysis with special attention to the h-index . Journal of Informetrics, 2(3), 2008, 202-210.

Draws attention to the fact that there are many types of h-index time series and proposes a notation to distinguish between them.

Yuxian Liu, I.K. Ravichandra Rao and Ronald Rousseau. Empirical series of journal h-indices: the JCR category Horticulture     as a case study (Scientometrics: submitted)

Studies some empirical time series of h-indices and introduces the field-relative normalized h-ratio

R. Rousseau. The influence of missing publications on the h-index. Journal of Informetrics, 1(1) 2007, 2-7

The first ever regular article published in this journal. Shows the robustness of the h-index

R. Rousseau. Hungary - and Tibor Braun - on top . In: The multidimensional world of Tibor Braun, (Glänzel, ed.) ISSI (2007),   p. 25-28.

An occasional paper, uses the Hirsch index for topics

R. Rousseau. New developments related to the Hirsch index. Science Focus, 1(4), p.23-25, 2006. (in Chinese). English version available at: E-LIS: code 6376

A review paper

Ronald Rousseau. A case study: evolution of JASIS' h-index (in Chinese). Science Focus, 2006, 1(1), 16-17. English version: E-LIS: ID-code 5430.

Proposes to normalize journal h-indices dividing by the number of publications

R. Rousseau. Simple models and the corresponding h- and g-index. E-LIS: ID code: 6153

Studies some simple models and proposes a real-valued h-index.

R. Rousseau. Woeginger's axiomatization of the h-index and its relation to the g-index, the h⁽²⁾-index and the R²-index (JOI: submitted)

The title tells it all. Based on Woeginger's famous article.

R. Rousseau. Reflections on recent developments of the h-index and h-type indices. Proceedings WIS 2008, Berlin.

A review.

Ronald Rousseau. Recent developments related to the h-index: 2007-2008. Science Focus, 2008, 3(3), 19-24 (in Chinese)

A review.

Ronald Rousseau, Raf Guns and Yuxian Liu. The h-index of a conglomerate. Cybermetrics, 2008, vol.12, Issue 1, Paper 2

A general framework for informetric research as applied to the h-index.

Ronald Rousseau and Bihui Jin. The age-dependent h-type AR²-index: basic properties and a case study. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 59(14), 2305-2311, 2008.

An elaboration of Jin's idea to incorporate the age of a publication in the calculation of the h-index. Includes the history of my personal h-index.

R. Rousseau and Nadine Rons. Another h-type index for institutional evaluation. Current Science, 95(9), 10 November 2008.

Counting only citing articles, not citations.

R. Rousseau & Fred Y. Ye. A proposal for a dynamic h-type index. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 59(11), 2008, 1853-1855.

A proposal for a combination of the R-index and the derivative of the h-index curve.

The STIMULATE 6 Group. The Hirsch index applied to topics of interest to developing countries. First Monday, 12(2), 2007

An application of the h-index for topics, written in collaboration with a group of international students

Jinkun Wan, Pinghuan Hua, Ronald Rousseau. The pure h-index: calculating an author' s h-index by taking co-authors into account. COLLNET Journal of Scientometrics and Information Management, 2007, p. Also available at E-LIS: ID code: 11401

A proposal for fractionally counting authors, possibly even taking their position in the byline into account.