Document (#38208)

Author

Prathap, G.

Title

¬The zynergy-index and the formula for the h-index

Source

Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology. 65(2014) no.2, S.426-427

Year

2014

Series

Brief communication

Abstract

The h-index, as originally proposed (Hirsch, 2005), is a purely heuristic construction. Burrell (2013) showed that efforts to derive formulae from the mathematical framework of Lotkaian informetrics could lead to misleading results. On this note, we argue that a simple heuristic "thermodynamical" model can enable a better three-dimensional (3D) evaluation of the information production process leading to what we call the zynergy-index.

Theme

Informetrie

Object

h-index
zynergy-index.

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