Use of the h-index to measure the quality of the output of health services researchers
| Autor: | Marion K Campbell, Caroline Fairhurst, David J. Torgerson, Yvonne Birks, Wendy Baird, Karen Bloor |
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| Rok vydání: | 2014 |
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Male Bibliometric analysis Knowledge management media_common.quotation_subject Statistics as Topic Health services Volunteer Sample Medicine Humans Operations management Quality (business) media_common Measure (data warehouse) business.industry Health Policy Data Collection Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Reproducibility of Results Middle Aged Bibliometrics Data Interpretation Statistical Female Health Services Research Journal Impact Factor business |
| Zdroj: | Journal of health services researchpolicy. 19(2) |
| ISSN: | 1758-1060 |
| Popis: | Objective: To assess the use of the h-index to measure the quality of the output of health services researchers. Method: Online survey, with bibliometric analysis of a convenience volunteer sample of researchers mainly in the UK, North America and Australasia. Self-reported from Google Scholar: h-index; number of papers; number of citations; number of papers with ≥10 citations. Results: There were complete responses from 532 health services researchers of whom 371 (70%) were from the UK. Of the bibliometric measures, the h-index appeared to be the best discriminator between other measures of quality (e.g. seniority; entry into the last UK Research Assessment Exercise). The median h-index was 12, with 90th and 95th quantiles of 40 and 52, respectively. Statisticians had the highest h-index with qualitative researchers the lowest (median 16 and 7, respectively). The h-index was predicted to increase by approximately 1 point annually with the biggest increase in statisticians and smallest in qualitative researchers when estimated by quantile regression. Conclusions: The h-index is a useful summary measure of output and quality of health services researchers. However, any accurate interpretation of bibliometric measures needs to take into account a person’s research discipline. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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