Pteronotus davyi

Abstract

Devising an index to measure the quality of research is a challengingtask. In this paper, we propose a set of indices to evaluate thequality of research produced by an author. Our indices utilize apolicy that assigns the weights to multiple authors of a paper. Wehave considered two weight assignment policies: positionally weightedand equally weighted. We propose two classes of weighted indices:weighted h-indices and weighted citation h-cuts. Further, we compareour weighted h-indices with the original h-index for a selected setof authors. As opposed to h-index, our weighted h-indices take intoaccount the weighted contributions of individual authors in multi-authoredpapers, and may serve as an improvement over h-index. The other classof weighted indices that we call weighted citation h-cuts take intoaccount the number of citations that are in excess of those requiredto compute the index, and may serve as a supplement to h-index orits variants. © 2011 Akadémiai Kiadó, Budapest, Hungary.