2005/10/14 by Pablo Diniz Batista, Mônica G. Campiteli, Batista, Pablo Diniz +5
Business, Management and Accounting · Decision Sciences · #Big Data and Business Intelligence #Data Analysis #FOS: Physical sciences #Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph) #Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an) #scientometrics and bibliometrics research
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.physics/0510142
openalex publication_date 2005/10/14 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Indexes that account for good representations of an individual's productivity are theme of major importance for the evaluation and comparison among researchers. Recently, a new index was proposed combining productivity with impact such that a researcher with index h has h papers with at least h citations. A drawback of this is the sensitivity to the research field. Here we propose a new index (hI) that accounts for the coauthorship effect. The statistics of h and hI are presented for Brazilian research. We have found a universal curve for different disciplines, allowing a comparison among scientists of different research areas.