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Do researchers know what the h-index is? And how do they estimate its importance?
Scientometrics ( IF 3.5 ) Pub Date : 2021-04-26 , DOI: 10.1007/s11192-021-03968-1
Pantea Kamrani , Isabelle Dorsch , Wolfgang G. Stock

The h-index is a widely used scientometric indicator on the researcher level working with a simple combination of publication and citation counts. In this article, we pursue two goals, namely the collection of empirical data about researchers’ personal estimations of the importance of the h-index for themselves as well as for their academic disciplines, and on the researchers’ concrete knowledge on the h-index and the way of its calculation. We worked with an online survey (including a knowledge test on the calculation of the h-index), which was finished by 1081 German university professors. We distinguished between the results for all participants, and, additionally, the results by gender, generation, and field of knowledge. We found a clear binary division between the academic knowledge fields: For the sciences and medicine the h-index is important for the researchers themselves and for their disciplines, while for the humanities and social sciences, economics, and law the h-index is considerably less important. Two fifths of the professors do not know details on the h-index or wrongly deem to know what the h-index is and failed our test. The researchers’ knowledge on the h-index is much smaller in the academic branches of the humanities and the social sciences. As the h-index is important for many researchers and as not all researchers are very knowledgeable about this author-specific indicator, it seems to be necessary to make researchers more aware of scholarly metrics literacy.



中文翻译:

研究人员是否知道h指数是多少?以及他们如何评估其重要性?

h指数是研究人员一级广泛使用的科学计量指标,通过将出版物和引文计数进行简单组合即可。在本文中,我们追求两个目标,即收集有关研究人员对h指数对自己以及其学科的重要性的个人估计的经验数据,以及研究人员对h指数的具体知识及其计算方式。我们进行了在线调查(包括对h指数的计算的知识测试),该调查由1081名德国大学教授完成。我们区分了所有参与者的结果,此外,还按性别,世代和知识领域对结果进行了区分。我们在学术知识领域之间找到了明确的二元划分:对于科学和医学而言,h指数对研究人员本人及其学科很重要,而对于人文科学,社会科学,经济学和法律而言,h指数的重要性就不那么重要了。五分之二的教授不知道h指数的详细信息,或者错误地认为自己知道h指数是什么,并且未通过我们的测试。在人文科学和社会科学的学术分支中,研究人员对h指数的了解要小得多。由于h指数对许多研究人员而言很重要,并且并非所有研究人员都对该作者特定指标非常了解,因此似乎有必要使研究人员更加了解学术指标的素养。在法律上,h指数的重要性要小得多。五分之二的教授不知道h指数的详细信息,或者错误地认为自己知道h指数是什么,并且未通过我们的测试。在人文科学和社会科学的学术分支中,研究人员对h指数的了解要小得多。由于h指数对许多研究人员而言很重要,并且并非所有研究人员都对该作者特定指标非常了解,因此似乎有必要使研究人员更加了解学术指标的素养。在法律上,h指数的重要性要小得多。五分之二的教授不知道h指数的详细信息,或者错误地认为自己知道h指数是什么,并且未通过我们的测试。在人文科学和社会科学的学术分支中,研究人员对h指数的了解要小得多。由于h指数对许多研究人员而言很重要,并且并非所有研究人员都对该作者特定指标非常了解,因此似乎有必要使研究人员更加了解学术指标的素养。

更新日期:2021-04-27
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