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Autor/in | Lund, Brady |
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Titel | Examination of correlates of H-index as a measure of research productivity for library and information science faculty in the United States and Canada. |
Quelle | In: Scientometrics, (2019) 2, S.897-915
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Dokumenttyp | gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz |
ISSN | 0138-9130 |
DOI | 10.1007/s11192-019-03152-6 |
Schlagwörter | H-index; Hirsch index; Scientific output; Research productivity; Library and information science; Citation index; Library and information science faculty |
Abstract | Abstract This research analyzes research productivity among Library and Information Science (LIS) faculty based on number of publications and citations throughout the careers of tenure-track and tenured professors in LIS schools with an American Library Association-accredited Master of LIS program. The h-index is examined as a representative measure of LIS faculty output using a regression analysis. Based on observed variance in h-index and other research productivity measures across LIS schools, a regression is conducted based on several variables that distinguish these schools: Research 1 status, proportion of faculty who are full professors, where the university is located, whether the LIS school has a Ph.D. program, and whether the school is a member of the iSchool consortium. Findings indicate that h-index effectively represents the relative number of publications and citations a professor has while mitigating the impact of a few highly-cited publications that are not representative of an entire body of work. In addition to Research 1 status and proportion of full professors, iSchool membership is identified as a factor that influences a LIS school’s h-index vale. These findings have relevance to LIS readers interested in analyzing productivity of individual researchers and schools, researchers interested in the measurement of the effect of the h-index value on evaluating research productivity, and readers interested in the impact of the iSchool movement on research in LIS. |
Erfasst von | OLC |
Update | 2023/2/05 |