An updated h-index measures both the primary and total scientific output of a researcher.
The growing interest in scientometry stems from ethical concerns related to the proper evaluation of scientific contributions of an author working in a hard science. In the absence of a consensus, institutions may use arbitrary methods for evaluating scientists for employment and promotion. There are several indices in use that attempt to establish the most appropriate and suggestive position of any scientist in the field he/she works in. A scientist's Hirsch-index (h-index) quantifies their total effective published output, but h-index summarizes the total value of their published work without regard to their contribution to each publication. Consequently, articles where the author was a primary contributor carry the same weight as articles where the author played a minor role. Thus, we propose an updated h-index named Hirsch(p,t)-index that informs about both total scientific output and output where the author played a primary role. Our measure, h(p,t) = h(p),h(t), is composed of the h-index h(t) and the h-index calculated for articles where the author was a key contributor; i.e. first/shared first or senior or corresponding author. Thus, a h(p,t) = 5,10 would mean that the author has 5 articles as first, shared first, senior or corresponding author with at least 5 citations each, and 10 total articles with at least 10 citations each. This index can be applied in biomedical disciplines and in all areas where the first and last position on an article are the most important. Although other indexes, such as r- and w-indexes, were proposed for measuring the authors output based on the position of researchers within the published articles, our simpler strategy uses the already established algorithms for h-index calculation and may be more practical to implement.
Department of Pathology, Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA.
Octavian
O
Bucur
Department of Cancer Biology, Lerner Research Institute & Department of Radiation Oncology, Taussig Cancer Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, USA.
Alex
A
Almasan
Department of Medical Biochemistry & Biophysics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.
Roman
R
Zubarev
Department of Pathology, St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center, Beth Israel Medical Center and Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA.
Mark
M
Friedman
Department of Molecular Pathology, The Institute for Molecular Medicine, Huntington Beach, CA, USA.
Garth L
GL
Nicolson
Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA.
Pavel
P
Sumazin
Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of Medicine and Pharmacy Carol Davila and Victor Babes National Institute of Pathology, Bucharest, Romania.
Mircea
M
Leabu
Department of Microbiology, Boston University School of Medicine Boston, MA, USA.
Barbara S
BS
Nikolajczyk
Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA.
Dorina
D
Avram
Department of Genetics, Animal Biotechnology and Immunology, Domzale, Slovenia.
Tanja
T
Kunej
Department of Experimental Therapeutics and Leukemia & Center for RNA Interference and Non-Coding RNAs, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA.
George A
GA
Calin
Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Kansas Cancer Center Kansas City, KS, USA.
Andrew K
AK
Godwin
Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden.
Hans-Olov
HO
Adami
Department of Biosciences and Nutrition, Karolinska Institute, Sweden.
Peter G
PG
Zaphiropoulos
Department of Pathology and Bosch Institute, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia.
Des R
DR
Richardson
Department of Laboratory Medicine & Pathobiology, Tanz Centre for Research in Neurodegenerative Diseases, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.
Gerold
G
Schmitt-Ulms
Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden.
Håkan
H
Westerblad
Biology Department, University of TEXAS Pan American, Edinburg, TX, USA.
Megan
M
Keniry
Department of Pathology, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia.
Georges E R
GE
Grau
Centre for Research in Neuroscience, McGill University Health Sciences Centre, Montreal, Canada.
Salvatore
S
Carbonetto
The Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Dartmouth College, Lebanon, NH, USA.
Radu V
RV
Stan
Department of Psychiatry, Rostock University Medical School, Rostock, Germany.
Aurel
A
Popa-Wagner
Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA.
Kasumov
K
Takhar
Department of Pathology, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.
Beverly W
BW
Baron
Pediatric Hematology/Oncology, Mayo Clinic Transplant Center, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MI, USA.
Paul J
PJ
Galardy
Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA.
Feng
F
Yang
Biochemistry Division, CSIR-Central Drug Research Institute, Lucknow, India.
Dipak
D
Data
Department of Pathology, University of California, San Diego, San Diego, CA, USA.
Oluwole
O
Fadare
Department of Pathology, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.
Kt Jerry
KJ
Yeo
Victor Babes National Institute of Pathology and Biomedical Sciences, Bucharest, Romania.
Georgiana R
GR
Gabreanu
Service de Médecine Interne, CNHO des Quinze-Vingts, Paris, France.
Stefan
S
Andrei
Departament of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Bucharest University Emergency Hospital, Bucharest, Romania.
Georgiana R
GR
Soare
Department of Pathology, The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA.
Mark A
MA
Nelson
Institute for Molecular Cardiovascular Research (IMCAR), RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany.
Elisa A
EA
Liehn