Jacso, P (Jacso, Peter) Testing the calculation of a realistic h-index in Google Scholar, Scopus, and Web of Science for F. W. Lancaster LIBRARY TRENDS, 56 (4): 784-815 SPR 2008

[Eugene Garfield]

Email Address: jacso at hawaii.edu

Author(s): Jacso, P (Jacso, Peter)

Title: Testing the calculation of a realistic h-index in Google Scholar, 
Scopus, and Web of Science for F. W. Lancaster 

Source: LIBRARY TRENDS, 56 (4): 784-815 SPR 2008 

Language: English 

Document Type: Article 

Keywords Plus: SCIENTIFIC-RESEARCH OUTPUT; HIRSCH-TYPE INDEXES; 
BIBLIOMETRIC INDICATORS; CITATION ANALYSIS; JOURNALS; INFORMATION; 
DATABASES; RANKING; AUTHORS; COUNTS 

Abstract: This paper focuses on the practical limitations in the content 
and software of the databases that are used to calculate the h-index for 
assessing the publishing productivity and impact of researchers. To 
celebrate F. W. Lancaster's biological age of seventy-five, 
and "scientific age" of forty-five, this paper discusses the related 
features of Google Scholar, Scopus, and Web of Science (WoS), and 
demonstrates in the latter how a Much more realistic and fair h-index call 
be computed for F. W. Lancaster than the one produced automatically. 
Browsing and searching the cited reference index of the 1945-2007 edition 
of WoS, which in my estimate has over a hundred million 11 orphan 
references" that have no counterpart master records to be attached to, 
and "stray references" that cite papers which do have master records but 
cannot be identified by the matching algorithm because of errors of 
omission and commission in the references of the citing works, can bring 
tip hundreds of additional cited references given to works of an 
accomplished author but are ignored in the automatic process of 
calculating the h-index. The partially manual process doubled the h-index 
value for F. W. Lancaster front 13 to 26, which is a much more realistic 
value for an information scientist and Professor of his statute. 

Addresses: Univ Hawaii, Dept Informat & Comp Sci, Honolulu, HI 96822 USA 

Reprint Address: Jacso, P, Univ Hawaii, Dept Informat & Comp Sci, 
Honolulu, HI 96822 USA.
 
Cited Reference Count: 71 

Times Cited: 1 

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29-char Source Abbrev.: LIBR TRENDS 

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