Abstract
AbstractWith the thousands of scientific papers being produced every month, picking an authors name, associate it to a research field and right evaluate his or her performance is in most of times a cumbersome task. I am proposing here that science indexes as h-index, g-index, total citations and published papers could be added to biomedical bibliographic citation in order to create a unique identifier for a given researcher.
Highlights
Since the first proposal to measure the citations to a scientific paper - the impact factor (Garfield 1955) - several methodologies to evaluate the performance of a given scientist have been under development aiming at the creation of indices in the many fields of science
The most popular of these science indices is the Hirsch Index or h-index (Hirsch 2005) which measures in decreasing order of citation the h paper that received h citations
One still needs a further browsing of the document set to discriminate completely homonymous authors working in related areas of the biomedical research
Summary
Since the first proposal to measure the citations to a scientific paper - the impact factor (Garfield 1955) - several methodologies to evaluate the performance of a given scientist have been under development aiming at the creation of indices in the many fields of science. It gives high score to those papers that are ranked as the most cited in the h -index calculation but do not longer contribute to increase the hindex as they receive new citations. Standard scientific bibliographic citation does not make use of any indicator or tag to resolve ambiguous author names.
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