A Perfect Hirsch-type Index? Experiences Using the Tapered h-Index (hT)

摘要

: The hT -index proposed by Anderson et al. includes all citations, yet scoring them in a way that is comparable with the h-index. This new index is superior to the h-index proposed by Hirsch because: 1) it takes all citations into account; 2) it has no problems with special cases, such as situations with only a few highly cited papers; or the case that, because of a lack of publications the h-index is set artificially equal to the number of publications; 3) it has a higher resolution than the h-index. In order to illustrate our point the hT – indices of more than 6,000 Chinese academic journals have been calculated and results are discussed.