Finding an Author's h-index with Web of Science
h-index: The h-index, or Hirsch index, measures the impact of a particular researcher rather than a journal. "It is defined as the highest number of publications of a researcher that received h or more citations each while the other publications have not more than h citations each (Schreiber, 2008a)." The h-index is included in Web of Science. For example, a scholar with an h-index of 5 had published 5 papers, each of which has been cited by others at least 5 times.
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Schreiber, 2008aJ.E. Hirsch (2005) introduced the h-index to quantify an individual's scientific research output by the largest number h of a scientist's papers that received at least h citations.
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- Integrated with Web of Science (high impact journals)
- Ensure correct attribution of your works
- Get number of cited references to your works
- Exchange data with ORCID
Cons:
- Used by Clarivate Analytics (formerly Thomson Reuters) only
- Not interoperable with other systems, aside from ORCID
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