THE FORMULA FOR FINDING THE NUMBER OF CITATIONS OF ARTICLES BYSCIENTISTS WHEN THE HIRSCH INDEX CHANGES
Alina Yuryevna Mironkina
Smolensk state agricultural Academy, Smolensk, Russia
Keywords: RSCI, scientometry, citation index, Hirsch index
Abstract
The article offers methodological recommendations for the most accurate tracking of the scientometric index of publication activity and demand for publications of a scientist known in science as the Hirsch index(h-index). The author introduces the developed formula for finding the growth of the scientist's citations added over a certain period of time that affect the increase in the Hirsch index, talks about the parameters of its dependence, gives advice on practical non-automated and automated calculation of the index, describes the scope of its application. The annual, or semi-annual, monitoring of the growth index of active citations, according to the author, is intended to stimulate scientists to further publication activities.
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