bibliometrix (version 1.8)

Hindex: h-index calculation

Description

It calculates the authors' h-index and its variants.

Usage

Hindex(M, authors, sep = ";", years = 10)

Arguments

M

is a bibliographic data frame obtained by the converting function convert2df. It is a data matrix with cases corresponding to manuscripts and variables to Field Tag in the original SCOPUS and Thomson Reuters' ISI Web of Knowledge file.

authors

is a character vector. It contains the the authors' names list for which you want to calculate the H-index. The aurgument has the form C("SURNAME1 N","SURNAME2 N",...), in other words, for each author: surname and initials separated by one blank space. i.e for the auhtors SEMPRONIO TIZIO CAIO and ARIA MASSIMO authors argument is authors = c("SEMPRONIO TC", "ARIA M").

sep

is the field separator character. This character separates auhtors in each string of AU column of the bibiographic data frame. The default is sep = ";".

years

is a integer. It indicates the number of years to consider for Hindex calculation. Default is 10.

Value

an object of class "list". It contains two elements: H is a data frame with h-index, g-index and m-index for each author; CitationList is a list with the bibliographic collection for each author.

See Also

convert2df to import and convert an ISI or SCOPUS Export file in a bibliographic data frame.

biblioAnalysis function for bibliometric analysis.

summary to obtain a summary of the results.

plot to draw some useful plots of the results.

Examples

# NOT RUN {
### EXAMPLE 1: ###
 
data(scientometrics)

authors <- c("SMALL H", "CHEN DZ")

Hindex(scientometrics, authors, sep = ";")$H

### EXAMPLE 2: Garfield h-index###
 
data(garfield)

indices=Hindex(garfield, authors="GARFIELD E", sep = ";")

# h-index, g-index and m-index of Eugene Garfield
indices$H

# Papers and total citations
indices$CitationList[[1]]

# }