Detecting <Emphasis Type="Italic">h</Emphasis>-index manipulation through self-citation analysis |
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Authors: | Christoph Bartneck Servaas Kokkelmans |
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Affiliation: | (1) Department of Industrial Design, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands;(2) Department of Physics, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands |
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Abstract: | The h-index has received an enormous attention for being an indicator that measures the quality of researchers and organizations.
We investigate to what degree authors can inflate their h-index through strategic self-citations with the help of a simulation. We extended Burrell’s publication model with a procedure
for placing self-citations, following three different strategies: random self-citation, recent self-citations and h-manipulating self-citations. The results show that authors can considerably inflate their h-index through self-citations. We propose the q-index as an indicator for how strategically an author has placed self-citations, and which serves as a tool to detect possible
manipulation of the h-index. The results also show that the best strategy for an high h-index is publishing papers that are highly cited by others. The productivity has also a positive effect on the h-index. |
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