A Google Scholar h-index for journals: An alternative metric to measure journal impact in economics and business

Anne-Wil Harzing; Ron van der Wal

doi:10.1002/asi.20953

A Google Scholar h-index for journals: An alternative metric to measure journal impact in economics and business

Anne-Wil Harzing^*, Ron van der Wal

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

We propose a new data source (Google Scholar) and metric (Hirsch's h-index) to assess journal impact in the field of economics and business. A systematic comparison between the Google Scholar h-index and the ISI Journal Impact Factor for a sample of 838 journals in economics and business shows that the former provides a more accurate and comprehensive measure of journal impact.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	41-46
Journal	Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Volume	60
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.20953
Publication status	Published - Jan 2009
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

CITATION ANALYSIS
BIBLIOMETRIC DATA
MANAGEMENT
RANKING
ISI

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