Impact factors and h-index returned in search?

[David Goodman]

I would be very reluctant to use automated methods to assess individuals.  What is best is to look up authors individually in Web of Science or Scopus, using human judgment to group the results,  and then getting a list of papers and number of citations. If the applicants supply a list of papers in machine readable form, it might be possible to write a program to do the rest. 

David Goodman, Ph.D., M.L.S.
previously:
Bibliographer and Research Librarian
Princeton University Library

dgoodman at princeton.edu


----- Original Message -----
From: James Mateo Ari Liebkowsky <ari.liebkowsky at CHARITE.DE>
Date: Thursday, April 17, 2008 12:51 pm
Subject: [SIGMETRICS] Impact factors and h-index returned  in search?
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> Hi,
> 
> Our research center needs to assess hundreds of applicants 
> according to a
> number of different parameters - h-index, cumulative impact factor, 
> firstand last author (no. of papers and cumulative impact factor of 
> thesealone).
> 
> Spefically, I'm looking for a database or program that can 
> calculate the
> h-index AND an author's cumulative impact factor (using either the 
> currentimpact factors of the respective journals, or ideally, those 
> in the year
> of publication) at the same time. Even if the impact factor was 
> listed for
> each publication individually, this would be a big help.
> 
> Does anyone have any ideas on this?
> 
> For me, this isn't really an issue of what the best means of 
> selecting the
> ideal candidates is - I'm just a minion in this selection process.
> 
> Greetings,
> Ari Liebkowsky
>