Rational (successive) h-indices: An application to economics in the Republic of Ireland
ScientometricsPublished 8 March 2008Open access
Frances Ruane, Richard S.J. Tol
Citations127
SJR quartileQ1
SJR score1.15
SNIP1.82
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This work ranks economics departments in the Republic of Ireland according to the number of publications, number of citations, and successive h-index of research-active staff and increases the discriminatory power of the h1-index by introducing three generalizations, each of which is a rational number.
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We rank economics departments in the Republic of Ireland according to the number of publications, number of citations, and successive h-index of research-active staff. We increase the discriminatory power of the h
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