title: Evaluation and ranking of researchers--Bh Index.
abstract: Evaluation and ranking of every author is very crucial as it is widely used to evaluate the performance of the researcher. This article proposes a new method, called Bh-Index, to evaluate the researchers based on the publications and citations. The method is built on h-Index and only the h-core articles are taken into consideration. The method assigns value additions to those articles that receive significantly high citations in comparison to the h-Index of the researcher. It provides a wide range of values for a given h-Index and effective evaluation even for a short period. Use of Bh-Index along with the h-Index gives a powerful tool to evaluate the researchers.
authors.affiliation: Knowledge Resource Centre, Central Leather Research Institute, Adyar, Chennai, India.
authors.forename: D Gnana
authors.initials: DG
authors.lastname: Bharathi
mesh_terms: D015706:Bibliometrics; D006801:Humans; D009613:Nobel Prize; D012108:Research Personnel / Q000592:standards*; D013997:Time Factors