Research Methodology & IPR

H-index & I-index

Prepared By,
Ambalatharasu A
B.E/EEE
Impact Factor
• The impact factor (IF) of a scientific journal is a measure reflecting
the average number of citations to papers published in that journal.
• This indicator measures the relative importance of a journal within
its scientific field, with journals with higher impact factors deemed
to be more important than those with lower ones.
• The impact factor was devised by Eugene Garfield, the founder of
the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) in Philadelphia (now a
part of Thomson Reuters), as a way to count the impact of scientific
journals (Garfield 1964, 1972, 2006).
H-index
• The h-index is short for the Hirsch index, which was introduced by
Jorge E. Hirsch (2005) as a way to quantify the productivity and
impact of an individual author.
• Similar to how the IF(Impact Factor) is now be used to measure a
journal or an author to their scientific field,
• The h-index has become another measure of relative impact of
scientific publications.
• While the IF is derived from the quotient of total citations and total
papers in a two-year span,
• The h-index is simply a count of the largest number of papers (h)
from a journal or author that have at least (h) number of citations.
H-index
H-index
H-Index = number of papers (h) with a citation number ≥ h.
Advantages of the H-Index:
• Allows for direct comparisons within disciplines
• Measures quantity and impact by a single value.
Disadvantages of the H-Index:
• Does not give an accurate measure for early-career researchers
• Calculated by using only articles that are indexed in Web of Science.
Tools for measuring H-Index:
• Web of Science
• Google Scholar
i10-index
• Created by Google Scholar and used in Google's My Citations feature. 
i10-Index = the number of publications with at least 10 citations.  
• This very simple measure is only used by Google Scholar, and is
another way to help gauge the productivity of a scholar.  
Advantages of i10-Index
• Very simple and straightforward to calculate
• My Citations in Google Scholar is free and easy to use
Disadvantages of i10-Index
• Used only in Google Scholar
Here is a screenshot of a Google Scholar My Citations page for Charles
Darwin (you can see the i10-Index highlighted).
i20-index
• The i20-index, proposed in this editorial note, is obtained by tallying a
journal’s total number of published papers with at least 20 citations.
• It is interesting to note that the total number of citations received by
i20 papers (i.e., 24 papers out of all published papers) was 1693.
• This briefly means that i20 papers received 70 percent of all citations
to Webology. The i20-index helps shift concern for editors and
encourages journals to accept more relevant papers.

i20-index of Webology
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