Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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523154 | Journal of Informetrics | 2007 | 6 Pages |
Abstract
We show that usually the influence on the Hirsch index of missing highly cited articles is much smaller than the number of missing articles. This statement is shown by a combinatorial argument. We further show, by using a continuous power law model, that the influence of missing articles is largest when the total number of publications is small, and non-existing when the number of publications is very large. The same conclusion can be drawn for missing citations. Hence, the h-index is resilient to missing articles and to missing citations.
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Authors
Ronald Rousseau,