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Further Reading
1 Bastian, S. , Ippolito, J.A. , Lopez, S.A. et al. (2017). The use of the h‐index in academic orthopaedic surgery. Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery (American Volume) 99 (4): e14.
2 Bornmann, L. , Mutz, R. , Daniel, H.‐D. et al. (2009). Are there really two types of h‐index variants? A validation study by using molecular life sciences data. Research Evaluation 18 (3): 185–190.
3 Dunnick, N.R. (2017). The h‐index in perspective. Academic Radiology 24 (2): 117–118.
4 Masic, I. (2016). Scientometric analysis: a technical need for medical science researchers either as authors or as peer reviewers. Journal of Research in Pharmacy Practice 5 (1): 1–6.
5 Saraykar, S. , Saleh, A. , and Selek, S. (2017). The association between NIMH funding and h‐index in psychiatry. Academic Psychiatry https://doi.org/10.1007/s40596-016-0654-4.
6 Ruscio, J. (2016). Taking advantage of citation measures of scholarly impact: hip hip h‐index! Perspectives on Psychological Science 11 (6): 905–908.
Notes
1Available from http://ed.sjtu.edu.cn/ranking.htm.2Available from http://www.paked.net/higher_education/rankings/rankings.htm.3Available from www.webometrics.info.4Available from http://www.mines-paristech.eu/About-us/Rankings/professional-ranking.