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El índice-H y Google Académico: una simbiosis cienciométrica inclusiva / H-index and Google Scholar: a inclusive scienciometrics symbiosis
Silva Ayçaguer, Luis Carlos.
  • Silva Ayçaguer, Luis Carlos; Centro Nacional de Información de Ciencias Médicas-Infomed. La Habana. CU
Acimed (Impr.) ; 23(3): 308-322, jul.-set. 2012.
Article in Spanish | LILACS-Express | LILACS | ID: lil-654507
RESUMEN
Se examina el origen del "factor de impacto" como indicador de la influencia de una revista científica y su evolución hasta convertirse en un instrumento altamente redituable para la empresa Thomson Reuters, gracias en parte a su naturaleza excluyente y anglocéntrica. El índice-H de Hirsh y sus variantes, así como la posibilidad de conjugarlo con las prestaciones de Google Académico, son valorados con detalle y conceptuados como componentes de un modelo alternativo, con imperfecciones diversas, pero libre de buena parte de las objeciones que se han hecho a los indicadores precedentes. Tales posibilidades resultan especialmente atractivas cuando se involucran idiomas diferentes al inglés en el análisis.
ABSTRACT
The paper shows how the dominant journal impact factor has arrived to its present features and discuss the degree in which this metric is prone to be manipulated and misused, as opposed to the prescribed utilization by Thomson Reuter, the corporation in charge of its official computation. Hirsch's H-index and a large family of related indicators seek to give a single number that in some sense summarizes an author's research output and its impact. The free public availability of information offered by Google Scholar allows citation counts, and analyses based thereon, to be performed and duplicated by anyone. Combining H-index with this information provides an avenue for more transparency and supply an extraordinary opportunity to develop a fairer scienciometric analysis, specially when languages other than English are involved.

Full text: Available Index: LILACS (Americas) Type of study: Prognostic study Language: Spanish Journal: Acimed (Impr.) Journal subject: Medical Informatics Year: 2012 Type: Article Affiliation country: Cuba Institution/Affiliation country: Centro Nacional de Información de Ciencias Médicas-Infomed/CU

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Full text: Available Index: LILACS (Americas) Type of study: Prognostic study Language: Spanish Journal: Acimed (Impr.) Journal subject: Medical Informatics Year: 2012 Type: Article Affiliation country: Cuba Institution/Affiliation country: Centro Nacional de Información de Ciencias Médicas-Infomed/CU