Statistical analysis of the Hirsch index

DOI10.1111/J.1467-9469.2011.00782.XMaRDI QIDQ3145562zbMATHOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Luca Pratelli, Alberto Baccini, Lucio Barabesi, Marzia Marcheselli

Publication date 21 December 2012

Published in Scandinavian Journal of Statistics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1102.2701

zbMATH Keywords

variance estimationheavy-tailed distributionHirsch index

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nonparametric estimation (62G05) Applications of statistics (62P99)

Abstract: The Hirsch index (commonly referred to as h-index) is a bibliometric indicator which is widely recognized as effective for measuring the scientific production of a scholar since it summarizes size and impact of the research output. In a formal setting, the h-index is actually an empirical functional of the distribution of the citation counts received by the scholar. Under this approach, the asymptotic theory for the empirical h-index has been recently exploited when the citation counts follow a continuous distribution and, in particular, variance estimation has been considered for the Pareto-type and the Weibull-type distribution families. However, in bibliometric applications, citation counts display a distribution supported by the integers. Thus, we provide general properties for the empirical h-index under the small- and large-sample settings. In addition, we also introduce consistent nonparametric variance estimation, which allows for the implemention of large-sample set estimation for the theoretical h-index.

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