IMPORTANCE OF

RESEARCH METRICS IN
SCIENTIFIC
RESEARCH
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Today's Discussion
OUTLINE
Introduction
Importance of Research Metrics
Importance of H-index in Research Metrics
Limitations while using H-metrics
How to Improve H-index
Other Types of Research Metrics
Conclusion
 Research metrics are considered as an important tool in assessing
the academics papers for institutions or academic organizations.

It is utilised as the form of the quality assessment tool for

performing normal science research.
Introduction
The h-index is considered as the commonly used form of author-
level metric which helps to report the author’s output depending on
the total publication and total citations made in research work.

This study discussed the importance of research metrics and its

difference with h-index in respect to academic research.
Importance of Research Metrics

Research metrics or rather Scientometrics, is a combined word or

two important words, such as Science and Metrics.

The importance of metrics is thus found in quantitative analysis, where the

researcher conducts different and various scientific domains.

The citation indexes thus are found to utilise in Scientometrics.

These indexes are necessary to assess the journals and it measures the
Impact Factor or IF of the article.
Importance of H-index in Research Metrics

The h-index has been introduced by Hirsch in the year 2005.

It helps the researcher in calculating the research achievement in scientific research.

It depends on individual publications of the author and also the number of citation based on
which publications are needed to attract.

H-index is a type of author-level metrics.

It helps to indicate the number of articles or h that is found to be cited with the least or h
number of times.
 H-metrics can count highly cited paper irrespective of any
reason of being referenced, like in the case of negative reason,
Limitations this metric can be used.

while The metric process sometimes limits the authors through the
total number in the publications.
using
H- It does not consider the variations within in the case of an
average number of the publication.
metr
ics There is a relatively low resolution in the case of h-
metrics.
How to Improve H-index

In the competitive environment of the university, the quantitative indicator like h-index
becomes more important.

The citations are found to increase when the researcher will cite his or college and the
other researcher may also follow the same.

The most important process is to increase the searching through the search machines,
like,
Google Scholars, Research Gate or Pub Med etc.

H-index can be increased by promoting some research papers or journals through

compatible search engines.
 Other than this author-level h-metric there are journal-level and article-level
Other research metrics which have also some specific impact in the research field
.
Types of Impact Factor, Eigen factor or Immediacy Index are the Journal-level
Research research metrics.

Metrics The impact factor is utilised very frequently and it is published by Journal
Citation Reports or JCR.

Eigen factor provides a higher weightage citation from the influential

journals.

Immediacy Index indicates the average number of the article

citation.
Contd..
It is considered only at the first publication of the journal or article.

Article-level metrics are utilised for quantifying the impact of the

published articles.

Almetrics is considered as the alternative form of traditional

citation.

Almetrics is a type of article-level metrics and it includes peer reviews,

citations made on Wikipedia or any public policy documents, like
research blogs, bookmarks or any media coverage etc.
 Therefore, the value of research metrics is very significant in
scientific research as it helps to assess the quality and level of
Conclusion citations in research articles.

H-index is a common and popular tool in research metrics and

the use of h-metrics can be improved by promoting this tool in
more number of researchers.
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