Fractionalized counting of publications for the g-Index

✍ Scribed by Michael Schreiber

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 96 KB
• Volume: 60
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1532-2882
• DOI: 10.1002/asi.21119

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

L. Egghe (2008) studied the h‐index (Hirsch index) and the g‐index, counting the authorship of cited articles in a fractional way. But his definition of the g~F~‐index for the case that the article count is fractionalized yielded values that were close to or even larger than the original g‐index. Here I propose an alternative definition by which the g‐index is modified in such a way that the resulting g~m~‐index is always smaller than the original g‐index. Based on the interpretation of the g‐index as the highest number of articles of a scientist that received on average g or more citations, in the specification of the new g~m~‐index the articles are counted fractionally not only for the rank but also for the average.