Self-citation corrections for the Hirsch index

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2007-01-19

arxiv.org/abs/physics/0701231v2

EPL 78 (2007) 30002

Physics

Physics and Society

6 pages, 6 figures, accepted for publication in EPL, more data sets investigated and more references added in comparison with

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I propose to sharpen the index h, proposed by Hirsch as a useful index to characterize the scientific output of a researcher, by excluding the self-citations. Performing a self-experiment and also analyzing two anonymous data sets, it is shown that self-citations can significantly reduce the $h$ index in contrast to Hirsch's expectations. This result is confirmed by an analysis of 13 further data sets.

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