2012/01/30 by Francesco Bartolucci, Bartolucci, Francesco
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paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1201.6179
Trasformed into a letter to the Editor of the "Journal of the American Society for Information"
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I introduce a decomposition of the h-index, which is nowadays the leading criterion to assess the relevance of a scientist in his/her research field. According to the proposed decomposition, the h-index is the product of two indicators, the first of which measures the impact of the scientist on the research community and the second may be seen as a measure of concentration of the citations in correspondence of a reduced number of papers. The decomposition is illustrated by an application based on data concerning a group of top level economists.