Which of citations, reads, recommendations, total research interest, and h-index is the most accurate, meaningful and informative measure of academic activity?
Number of journal articles published in peer-reviewed journals.
Hi,
The way to find out more about this is to correlate a sample of each indicator against another and observe the relation, and from there draw the conclusions.
The question was open ended, and can be based on empirical analysis or a subjective interpretation.
The data are not available for all academics listed on RG.
Should the number of journal articles be divided by the number of authors?
Are the numbers of pages a more accurate guide, whether aggregate or per capita?
In my own opinion, citations and impact factor of journals published with. Other factors may follow
Depends on what you consider to be academic activity. I think quality is much more important than quantity so pages per capita and similar metrics should not be relevant.
I think you should take your research as a source for other research
They all together create a general picture about researcher's academic activity.
No. of quality articles in good journals is mainly important. As well as Citations and H-index are two key parameters.
Many of the distinguished respondents have emphasized the quality of research, which can be summarized in the total number of Citations and the h-index.
However, the RG score does not depend on Citations or the h-index.
Total Research Interest (TRI) does depend on Citations but not on the h-index, which balances Total Publications and Total Citations.
I would like to thank all the academics who have provided interesting and stimulating Answers to the Question.
To Avishag Gordon :
Many thanks for your helpful and instructive Answer.
To Dennis Mazur :
Many thanks for your informative Answer regarding the number of journal articles published in peer-reviewed journals.
To Ahsan Siddiqui :
Many thanks for your instructive Answer regarding Citations and the h-index.
To Oluwaseun A. Otekunrin :
Many thanks for your helpful Answer regarding Citations and the impact factor.
To Mirna Leko-Šimić :
Many thanks for your thoughtful Answer regarding the importance of the quality of academic activity.
To Luaay Abdulwahid Shihab :
Many thanks for your well considered answer regarding the source of research as a basis for further research.
To Rusudan Labadze :
Many thanks for your informative Answer about a combined assessment of academic activity.
To Joshua O. Ighalo :
Many thanks for your helpful Answer regarding Citations and the h-index.
To Mala Babagana Gutti :
Thank you for your carefully considered Answer about the number of peer-reviewed publications.
To Sohel Rana :
Thank you for your instructive Answer about the quality of publications, with an emphasis on Citations and the h-index.
I wish to thank all the respondents for their interesting, challenging, informative, instructive, innovative, topical, timely, entertaining, and occasionally highly amusing, Answers.
As stated on other threads, TRI has an internal inconsistency in that Citations include self cites, whereas it is not possible to record Reads and Recommendations of your own publications.
Just as the h-index is reported with and without self citations, both Citations and TRI should be reported with and without self citations.
An associated TRI-index that matrix balances Publications against TRI should be reported with and without self citations.
I think that it is a bit complicated because of the specificity of the research and the language used because there are prejudices against some languages such as Arabic, but in general the number of readings and the nature of the magazine published in it indicates the research power
To Elker Mohamed :
Many thanks for your interesting and helpful Answer.
Dear Michael, each of these factors you have stated have their own values. These days researchers focuses more on H index.
Closest to accuracy. But it can only show the real activity of the researcher through publication. The researcher is also a professor, teacher and human being.
Hire to that publishing industry. A cheats. There are crooked styles. Names may be placed on articles that the researcher did not participate in. Names are placed by creating networks
The h-index is the most widely-used measure of research quality, impact and productivity, but the pother metrics are useful in quantifying different perceptions of research.
To Hom Nath Chalise, Taher Alkhalaf and Chia-Lin Chang :
Many thanks for your well considered and informative contributions to this thread.
Much appreciated.
The h-index, but it depends on what platform does the calculation.
To Maurice Ekpenyong :
Many thanks for your informative and helpful Answer.
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