Citation Growth Index: An Index to Monitor Researchers’ Citation Growth
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- 1PhD, Modeling of Non communicable Diseases Research Center, Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, Hamadan, IRAN.
- 2MSc, PhD student in Library and Information Science, Hamedan Branch, Islamic Azad University and Central Library of Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, Hamadan, IRAN.
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Manoochehr Karami
PhD, Modeling of Non communicable Diseases Research Center, Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, Hamadan, IRAN.
Volume 5, Issue 2 · pp. 159-160 · 2016 · DOI: 10.5530/jscires.5.2.6
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Dear Editor In Chief There are a variety of scientific contributions, productivity and impact indicators include h-index, g-index, hg-index and AR index as citation based indicators.1-4 It is evidenced both strengths and weaknesses of such indicators in the literature.5,6 Majority of the scientific output measures focus on most cited papers. However, no one has considered predictability of researcher’s impact during next years and ignore non cited publications.
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Karami, M., & Fazli, F. (2016). Citation Growth Index: An Index to Monitor Researchers’ Citation Growth. Journal of Scientometric Research, 5(2), 159-160. https://doi.org/10.5530/jscires.5.2.6
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