Could anyone tell the difference between Scopus index and H index Journals? Which one would be better for publications?
Dear Dr. Priyadharsini Sivaraj
Here is a usefull links :http://www.dit.ie/library/ditlibrarycentralservices/researchsmarts/understandbibliometrics/https://www.library.auckland.ac.nz/subject-guides/med/pdfs/H-index%20and%20impact%20factors.pdf
- H-index and impact factors.pdf
- https://guides.library.unisa.edu.au/c.php?g=169983&p=1119055
h index is a simple and standard method described by Jorge Hirsch: http://www.pnas.org/content/102/46/16569
So, Scopus determines h the same way any other source does: take the collection of papers of interest (it does NOT have to be an individual author's papers - any collection of papers has an h index). Rank them in descending order by the count of citations. Find the highest numerical rank where the citation count exceeds the rank. That's h .
The intricacy of h-index, however, is that its precise value depends on several non-quality factors, including:
1. the dataset you are using (WoS, Scopus and Google Scholar all feature h-index) which will affect both the source items you can include and the citing item population that will be considered If you are comparing h-indexes, it is best to compare within a single resource.
2. the subject matter of the work - as with any non-normalized citation metric, the expected high/low value will be dependent on subject area. Medicine, biomedicine, physics, chemistry - all pretty high; engineering, agriculture, linguistics...lower; history, art, literary criticism - comparatively low. It is best to compare within similar subjects. There are some adaptations/enhancements to h that attempt to account for some aspects of this by including normalizations based on citation levels in the h-core.
3. Age of the corpus - Older things more likely to be cited- and more likely to have achieved near-final citation records. h-index can only increase over time, even if the body of work being considered does not add new items. Again- see some of the h index adaptations.
4. the effect of highly cited papers - There are two edge-cases that would give you an h-index of 10: 10 papers with exactly 10 citations each - and nothing else. (Total citation count for the body of work: 100); or 10 papers with 1000 citations each - and nothing else (Total citation count for the body of work: 10,000). Are these really equivalent academic records? And, you guessed it, there are a pack of h index adjustments that address this kind of thing too.
http://www.pnas.org/content/102/46/16569.
The index is based on a list of publications ranked in descending order by the number of citations these publications received. The value of h is equal to the number of papers (N) in the list that have N or more citations.
With best Wishes
Dear Dr. Priyadharsini Sivaraj
Here is a usefull links :http://www.dit.ie/library/ditlibrarycentralservices/researchsmarts/understandbibliometrics/https://www.library.auckland.ac.nz/subject-guides/med/pdfs/H-index%20and%20impact%20factors.pdf
- H-index and impact factors.pdf
- https://guides.library.unisa.edu.au/c.php?g=169983&p=1119055
h index is a simple and standard method described by Jorge Hirsch: http://www.pnas.org/content/102/46/16569
So, Scopus determines h the same way any other source does: take the collection of papers of interest (it does NOT have to be an individual author's papers - any collection of papers has an h index). Rank them in descending order by the count of citations. Find the highest numerical rank where the citation count exceeds the rank. That's h .
The intricacy of h-index, however, is that its precise value depends on several non-quality factors, including:
1. the dataset you are using (WoS, Scopus and Google Scholar all feature h-index) which will affect both the source items you can include and the citing item population that will be considered If you are comparing h-indexes, it is best to compare within a single resource.
2. the subject matter of the work - as with any non-normalized citation metric, the expected high/low value will be dependent on subject area. Medicine, biomedicine, physics, chemistry - all pretty high; engineering, agriculture, linguistics...lower; history, art, literary criticism - comparatively low. It is best to compare within similar subjects. There are some adaptations/enhancements to h that attempt to account for some aspects of this by including normalizations based on citation levels in the h-core.
3. Age of the corpus - Older things more likely to be cited- and more likely to have achieved near-final citation records. h-index can only increase over time, even if the body of work being considered does not add new items. Again- see some of the h index adaptations.
4. the effect of highly cited papers - There are two edge-cases that would give you an h-index of 10: 10 papers with exactly 10 citations each - and nothing else. (Total citation count for the body of work: 100); or 10 papers with 1000 citations each - and nothing else (Total citation count for the body of work: 10,000). Are these really equivalent academic records? And, you guessed it, there are a pack of h index adjustments that address this kind of thing too.
http://www.pnas.org/content/102/46/16569.
The index is based on a list of publications ranked in descending order by the number of citations these publications received. The value of h is equal to the number of papers (N) in the list that have N or more citations.
With best Wishes
It is hard to exactly tell the difference between difference metrics.
However, you will find useful information about the different metrics on the link below.
https://subjectguides.library.american.edu/c.php?g=175335&p=1154177
Some related questions at Research gate are discussed in:
https://www.researchgate.net/post/Does_someone_knows_how_to_get_the_Impact_Factor_of_a_Journal_from_Google_Scholar_metrics
https://www.researchgate.net/post/What_is_the_difference_between_impact_factor_in_scopus_ISI_indexed_journals
Dear madam,
go through the article..
Conference Paper Presence of Analytics and Metrics in Citation Databases
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