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| Scholar Evaluation Research Based on an Improved h-index |
| Xiong Huixiang1, Ye Jiaxin1, Ding Ling2, Zeng Ting2 |
1.School of Information Management, Central China Normal University, Wuhan 430079
2.Wuhan Land Resource and Urban Planning Information Centre, Wuhan 430014 |
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Abstract The h-index is one of the common scientific indicators that are used to measure the academic ability of scholars. In view of the shortcomings of the h-index, which ignores often-cited papers, this paper analyzes the frequency of citation of papers with different h-indexes and calculates the average number of citations of papers with a certain h-index. On this basis, a new index is proposed: the hc index, which consists of an hc1 index and an hc2 index. The hc1 index is used to measure whether the scholar’s academic ability is higher or lower than the average value of the current h index; the hc2 index is used to measure the author’s academic activity in recent years. Scholars in the fields of digital libraries, digital archives, and digital museums have been selected for empirical research. The research shows that the hc index can better measure the author’s academic ability and that it can solve the problem of the h index ignoring often-cited papers. It can also be used to find scholars who have been active in recent years, and it can evaluate scholars according to the characteristics of different fields.
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Received: 24 October 2018
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