Study of H-index in Evaluation of Library and Information Science Journals
This study aims to make an empirical research of h-index in the evaluation of library and information science journals. The evaluation objects are 19 kinds of library and information science core journals from the Journal of Library Science in China using
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Study of H-index in Evaluation of Library and Information Science Journals Jian Jie Du, Xiang Fei Guo and Mei Zhang Abstract This study aims to make an empirical research of h-index in the evaluation of library and information science journals. The evaluation objects are 19 kinds of library and information science core journals from the Journal of Library Science in China using citation, h-index, and relative h-index. It proved that this journal has a top h-index, relative h-index, citation, and highest citation in the library and information science core journals, and high quality authors of highest citation. The papers in the journal have a high quality and excellent academic influence. Keywords Citation • H-index • Relative h-index • Periodical evaluation • Library and information science
40.1 Introduction Journal evaluation is an important part of the bibliometric study. It can reveal the number of disciplinary literature in the distribution of journals through quantitative analysis by the law of development and growth trends of the journal. Provide important reference for optimizing the use of academic journals, while improving the intrinsic quality of academic journals [1]. This study aims to make an empirical research of h-index in the evaluation of library and information science journals. The evaluation objects are 19 kinds of library and information science journals from A Guide to the Core Chinese Periodical [2] and the authors from Journal of Library Science in China.
40.1.1 Evaluation Index The 19 kinds of library and information science journals from A Guide to the Core Chinese Periodical and the authors from Journal of Library Science In China were evaluated using citation, h-index, and relative h-index. J. J. Du (*) · X. F. Guo · M. Zhang Library of Hebe United University, Tangshan, China e-mail: [email protected]
Z. Zhong (ed.), Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Engineering and Applications (IEA) 2012, Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering 220, DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4471-4844-9_40, © Springer-Verlag London 2013
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The journal paper citation frequency is the cumulative number of times the paper was published after a certain time domain in all kinds of literature references; it can be used to evaluate the quality of journals and academic achievement level of the scientific research staff of the academic units. The citation frequency is higher, if the search results generated by the social, economic, and ecological benefits are more. Obviously, highest frequency has been cited is ranked first in the sequence of the cited papers in a journal are cited from large to small arrangement of papers cited. Within the scope of this study, papers’ citation frequency ≥100, in cites qualitative change caused by the quantitative area, provide a basis for judge the papers frontier level of activity. This article defines the papers’ citation frequency ≥80 as high citation frequency. The h-index, a new scientific measurement evaluation, was invented by
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