Are there really two types of <I>h</I> index variants? A validation study by using molecular life sciences data is a research paper published in Research Evaluation (2009). On theSindex it has a DataRank of 1.3. It has been cited 29 times, with 21 citing works in its 1-hop citation network.
Due to the disadvantages of the h index that have been named since Hirsch's first publication of the index in 2005 (Hirsch, 2005), a number of variants that are intended to compensate for the weaknesses have been proposed. Bornmann et al (2008a, 2009b) tested (1) whether the variants developed are associated with an incremental contribution for evaluation purposes against the h index, (2) whether there is any need at all for the h index and its variants besides standard bibliometric measures and (3) which of the h index and its variants predict peer assessments of scientific performance at best. As all results of Bornmann et al (2008a, 2009b) are based on bibliometric data on post-doctoral research fellowship recipients of the Boehringer Ingelheim Fonds, it will be important to test whether the results can be validated using other data sets. Therefore, we examined in this study 693 applicants to the Long-Term Fellowship programme of the European Molecular Biology Organization whether the results found by Bornmann et al (2008a, 2009b) can be validated using another data set and further h index variants. All in all, with the findings in this study all results to the h index and its variants could be validated that are reported in Bornmann et al (2008a, 2009b). Copyright , Beech Tree Publishing.
FAIR checklist signals are shown for context only and do not affect DataRank scoring.
Base Score Contribution
0.510
From this paper's citation signal
Citation Network Contribution
0.775
From 17 citing papers with measurable signal
Ranked by citation count — the same ordering the engine uses when summing log1p(Cq) over citers.
DataRank blends this paper's own citation count with the influence of the papers that cite it. Here, roughly 40% comes from its base citations and 60% from the citation network (17 citing papers contributed measurable signal).
Citers are pulled from OpenAlex sorted by cited_by_count:descand capped per paper, so when the cap binds we keep the highest-signal references and the score is reproducible across reruns.
Click a node to highlight its connections. Use scroll to zoom. Drag to pan.