Talk:Scholar indices and impact

Duplication
This article duplicates a lot that is already present in the h-index, g-index, impact factor, and citation index articles (and perhaps others, too). Perhaps it should be redirected to one of those and if there is any unique content here that is not original research it could be merged to those articles. --Guillaume2303 (talk) 22:30, 19 December 2011 (UTC)
 * to deal with the immediate question, there's a good deal of unique content, that is not OR (we normally don't consider numerical examples of mathematical topics as OR, because there's often no other way to present them.). I would therefore not delete. The content would be very hard to merge into any of the existing articles, so I would not attempt it. The current title strikes me as wrong, but I'm not sure there is a standard general term. I 'll look.


 * This field needs a general article, as well as specific articles on the various measures. (the present one gets too technical to serve, and would need to be split).  There's an immense amount of activity, 1 or 2   articles in every biweekly issue of JASIST, and correspondingly in the lesser journals, supplanting the previous concentration of verifying the Zipf distribution.  Eugene Garfield keeps a running bibliography on the SIGMETRICS list of all studies, and they amount to about 50 a week, about 5  of them more than trivial.  As I understand it, the general state of the art at present is that the best measure that covers both the low and high ends  not just the middle, is a combination of h index with total citation, with the relative weights varying per field. To a certain extent, the focus is shifting a little to predicting career trajectories. Let me think if I know how to split this one, and see what we're missing.   DGG ( talk ) 20:31, 20 December 2011 (UTC)

I think this page is worth keeping. Myrtlegroggins (talk) 05:33, 9 April 2012 (UTC)