Count highly-cited papers instead of papers with h citations: use normalized citation counts and compare like with like!

摘要

Teixeira da Silva and Dobránszki (Scientometrics. 10.1007/s11192-018-2680-3, ) describe practical problems in using the h-index for the purpose of research evaluation. For example, they discuss the h-index differences among the bibliometric databases. In this Letter to the Editor, we argue for abstaining from using the h-index. One can use normalized indicators instead.