The Citationless h-index: Concerning a Heuristic Point of View Toward Hirsch's Index

Bertil Dorch; Charlotte Wien; Daniella Deutz; Thea Marie Drachen

The Citationless h-index: Concerning a Heuristic Point of View Toward Hirsch's Index

Bertil Dorch
, Charlotte Wien
, Daniella Deutz
, Thea Marie Drachen

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Abstract

We present a heuristic approach towards estimating a scholar’s h-index even when her citation record is incomplete. A citation-less h-index may sound as a contradiction in terms, but given the mathematical methodologies of bibliometrics and citation analyse in particular, the quantitative entities usually employed are governed by formal relations that in principle makes it possible to calculate an h-index based on assumptions related to the statistical citation patterns in a given field of research.

Original language	English
Publication status	Published - 2022

Keywords

Bibliometrics
Citation Analysis

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