A Google Scholar h‐index for journals: An alternative metric to measure journal impact in economics and business
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and TechnologyPublished 12 September 2008
Anne‐Wil Harzing, R. van der Wal
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A systematic comparison between the Google Scholar h-index and the ISI Journal Impact Factor for a sample of 838 journals in Economics & Business shows that the former provides a more accurate and comprehensive measure of journal impact.
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Abstract We propose a new data source (Google Scholar) and metric (Hirsch's h‐index) to assess journal impact in the field of economics and business. A systematic comparison between the Google Scholar h‐index and the ISI Journal Impact Factor for a sample of 838 journals in economics and business shows that the former provides a more accurate and comprehensive measure of journal impact.
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