title: Citation analysis of Australia-trained optometrists.
abstract: Hirsch recently proposed the h-index as a single-number metric to describe the impact of an academic, combining quality with quantity. An index of h indicates that an individual has h publications, which have been cited at least h times. In this paper, the Google Scholar database and Publish or Perish software are used to generate citation metrics of Australia-trained optometrists. We conclude that this analysis has considerable utility in defining and contextualising the general landscape of Australian academic publishing in a national and international framework.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation and School of Optometry, Queensland University of Technology, Kelvin Grove, Queensland, Australia. n.efron@qut.edu.au
authors.forename: Nathan
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Efron
authors.forename: Noel A
authors.initials: NA
authors.lastname: Brennan
mesh_terms: D001315:Australia; D015706:Bibliometrics; D006801:Humans; D055811:Journal Impact Factor; D009907:Optometry; D010506:Periodicals as Topic