382 researchers with an h-index of 100 or larger

[Isidro F. Aguillo]

Dear Andreas,

Thanks for the suggestion. For the next edition we will prepare TWO 
lists, one ranked by h-index, the second one by citations.

Best regards,

On 27/10/2014 16:21, Andreas Strotmann wrote:
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> Thank you very much, Isidro, for what should become a future text-book 
> example for just how lousy a metric for researcher quality the h index 
> is, not just for young scholars, but even for the most venerated 
> classics. Let me just highlight Max Weber: ~ 10th by number of 
> citations (as the founding father of modern sociology, a fitting 
> place), but well below 200th place by h index (and since this ranking 
> is highly incomplete - I'm missing Luhmann and Habermas amongst his 
> colleagues, for example - he'd probably end up in the 300s in a 
> complete ranking).  When people are mostly cited for their books, as 
> German sociologists are, their h-index is naturally and severely 
> limited by the number of their publications, not citations.
>
> May I suggest, therefore, that you redo the ranking by numbers of 
> citations rather than h-index?
>
> Best regards,
>
>  -- Andreas Strotmann
>
> On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 2:50 PM, Isidro F. Aguillo 
> <isidro.aguillo at cchs.csic.es <mailto:isidro.aguillo at cchs.csic.es>> wrote:
>
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>     A frequent criticism to the citation analysis stemmed from its
>     alleged inability to evaluate the results of social scientists in
>     general and the books as objects of scholarly communication in
>     particular.
>
>     For several years I have been working with Google Scholar, an
>     alternative to the WoS and Scopus, and now I have evidence to show
>     that the alleged bias of bibliometrics is probably the result of
>     an incomplete and biased coverage of the sources used so far.
>
>     I just published a ranking of the all-time most cited scientists
>     (of all time) according to their public profiles in Google Scholar
>     Citations. A list of the 382 entries with an h-index of 100 or
>     larger is here:
>
>     http://www.webometrics.info/en/node/58
>
>     Although these profiles are built on a voluntary basis and it is
>     far from complete, there are at least two very relevant patterns
>     observed immediately:
>     - A number of social scientists in positions of privilege. Some of
>     the deceased ones show that the "impact" of their work endures in
>     time far beyond 2 or 5 years.
>     - The books are achieving in many cases citations exceeding the
>     several thousand, so claiming their value as a tool for scientific
>     communication
>
>     A not so obvious corollary is the need of increasing the
>     visibility of the output in Social Sciences and Humanities,
>     profiting of the capabilities offered by the Open Access
>     repositories and the social networks. Certainly not because of
>     being under the new altmetrics indicators but to increase the
>     number of citations and to reduce the time delay in the
>     recognition of the contributions.
>
>     -- 
>
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>
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Isidro F. Aguillo, HonDr.
The Cybermetrics Lab, IPP-CSIC
Grupo Scimago
Madrid. SPAIN

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