Introduction
What are author-level metrics? Why track at this level?
Author-level metrics measure the impact of the scholarly output of a single researcher. Author-level metrics are designed to help researchers assess the cumulative impact of their work, rather than the impact of a single publication. All author-level metrics are derived from article-level metrics: they aggregate or summarize the impact of an author's publications.
Frequently-Used Metrics
- h-index
- i10-index
- g-index
- e-index
Notes and Limitations
As a "general rule of thumb:
- If an academic shows good citation metrics, it is very likely that he or she has made a significant impact on the field.
"However, the reverse is not necessarily true. If an academic shows weak citation metrics, this may be caused by a lack of impact on the field, but also by one or more of the following:
- Working in a small field (therefore generating fewer citations in total);
- Publishing in a language other than English (LOTE - effectively also restricting the citation field);
- Publishing mainly (in) books."
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Source: Anne-Wil Harzing, Publish or Perish