In all the recent discussion of the h-index (my GSH is 11), it's worth noting that we need some kind of normalization by community. As any one who's ever written a paper in databases will tell you, it's the best way of getting a HUGE citation count. Why ? Because the field is a lot bigger, and the odds are that many people will end up citing your work. For example, my most cited paper is an old piece of work for the WWW conference.
Maybe you could normalize the index by dividing by the maximum.
might it be better to divide by the average per keyword?
ReplyDeletePosted by Saheli
Removing a few outliers is perhaps more effective.
ReplyDeletePosted by Anonymous
>As any one who's ever written a paper in databases >will tell you, it's the best way of getting a HUGE >citation count. Why ? Because the field is a lot >bigger, and the odds are that many people will end >up citing your work.
ReplyDeleteNo. It's because the database community is a big fat Greek clusterfuck. The only thing the reviewers of VLDB look at when deciding to accept a paper is the bibliography.
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