h- Index Measure of a Scientist’s Impact Challenges and Opportunities

BY:A.L/ Sameh Elhabashy

F.O.N Cairo University

Aim of the Seminar • The aim of this seminar is raising the awareness of

the audience regarding :

– Identification of h- Index.– Magnitude of h- Index.– Measurement of h- Index (manual /automatic).– Difference between (h- Index & impact factor).– h- Index & Impact Factor estimation Web sites or Data

bases.– Challenges of publication.– Opportunities that may be assist the authors to overcome

the challenges of publication.

What is the h-Index?

• The h-Index is a metric to measure the productivity and impact of the published work of scholars.

• h-Index developed by (Jorge Hirsch) 2005.

High Quantity

High Quality

High h- index

How to measure the h- Index?

1- Manual Method.

2- Automatic Method BY: - SCOPUS.

- Google scholar.

!!!!!!Misunderstanding

Measure the h- Index by Manual Method.1- List of published articles.2- Determine the citation of each article through

Google scholars.

3 -Rank the articles from the most cited to the least regardless the date of Publication.

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Measure the h- Index by Automatically Through Google Scholar.

h- Index (h-I)VS

Impact Factor (IF)

Impact Factor (IF)• The impact factor (IF) is a measure used to

indicate the relative importance, impact of a journal within its field.

• The impact factor was devised by Eugene Garfield, the founder of the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI).

• Impact factors are calculated yearly starting from 1975 for those journals that are indexed (ISI)

Impact Factor (IF) for journal ranking Example:• To calculate the Impact Factor of Journal (s) in 2009. • 2009 impact factor = A/B.where:• A = the number of times that all items published in that journal in

2007 and 2008 were cited by indexed publications during 2008.• B = the total number of "citable articles" published by that journal

in 2007 and 2008.

The authors should be familiar with Web sites or Data bases which are

related toh- Index & Impact Factor estimation

systems.

Web of Knowledge

• Web of Knowledge (formerly known as Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) Web of Knowledge) is an academic citation indexing and search service, which is provided by Thomson Reuters and founded by Eugene Garfield in 1960.

• Web of Knowledge covers the sciences, social sciences, arts and humanities. It provides bibliographic content and tools to access, analyze, and manage research information.

• Capturing 65 million cited references annually.

• Scopus is a bibliographic database containing citations for academic journal articles. It covers nearly 22,000 titles from over 5,000 publishers.

• It is owned by Elsevier and available online.

Challenges of publication at indexed Journals

• Unoriginal research.• Incorrect or flawed research methods.• Unrepresentative statistics.• Plagiarism. • Small sample size.• Ethical approval not obtained.• Poor written.

Opportunities that may be assist the authors to overcome the challenges of

publication.

1 -Online Courses of Biostatistics

2 -Using (G*Power) as a Tool to Compute Sample Size Accurately

3 -Using plagiarism Detector programs

4- Apply a reference management soft ware.

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5 -Make your research more visible and reachable

6- Self enhancement H- Index strategy

Finally• There is no way to

get experience except

through experience