Abstract
SCI has been popular all over the world since it was published by Garfield in 1963. Researches on evaluating a researcher’s output with SCI have always been continuous. In recent years, a great breakthrough has been made since the h-index was put forward in 2005. In this paper, we also advance a new method — Paper Quality Index (PQI) to evaluate the output of a researcher. The main purpose of our method is to solve two problems that consist in the method of h-index: one is that the h-index can’t compare the outputs of researchers in different fields; the other is that it is unsuitable for evaluating the outputs of young researchers. A simple mathematical expression is constructed to eliminate the difference of citation among different fields and makes the evaluation of short-term outputs of researchers possible.
Article PDF
Similar content being viewed by others
Avoid common mistakes on your manuscript.
References
Bornmann, L., & Daniel, H. D. (2007), What do we know about the h index? Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 58(9): 1381–1385.
Braun, T., Glänzel, W., Schubert, A. (2006), A Hirsch-type index for journals. Scientometrics, 69(1): 169–173.
Dang, Y. R. (2002), Difference analysis of the time factor on subject impact index. Journal of the China Society for Scientific and Technical Information, 21(3): 328–333.
Egghe, L. (2006a), An improvement of the h-index: the g-index. ISSI Newsletter, 2(1): 8–9.
Egghe, L. (2006b), Theory and practise of the g-index. Scientometrics, 69(1): 131–152.
Egghe, L., Rousseau, R. (2006), An informetric model for the Hirsch-index. Scientometrics, 69(1): 121–129.
Hirsch, J. E. (2005), An index to quantify an individual’s scientific research output. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 102(46): 16569–16572.
Iglesias, J. E., Pecharromán, C. (2007), Scaling the h-index for different scientific ISI fields. Retrieved November 3, 2007, from http://arxiv.org/ftp/physics/papers/0607/0607224.pdf.
Qiu, J. (2007), Informatrics. Wuhan University Press, Wuhan.
Sun, Y., Xu, K. (2002), Evaluating individual scientific research output by using SCI in reason. Library Tribune, 22(5): 24–26.
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Corresponding author
Rights and permissions
About this article
Cite this article
Qiu, J., Ma, R. & Cheng, N. New exploratory work of evaluating a researcher’s output. Scientometrics 77, 335–344 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-008-1782-8
Received:
Published:
Issue Date:
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-008-1782-8