• DOI:10.1007/s11192-006-0144-7
Corpus ID: 207236267

Theory and practise of the g-index

@article{Egghe2006TheoryAP,
  title={Theory and practise of the g-index},
  author={L. Egghe},
  journal={Scientometrics},
  year={2006},
  volume={69},
  pages={131-152}
}

• L. Egghe
• Published 2006
• Mathematics, Computer Science
• Scientometrics

The g-index is introduced as an improvement of the h-index of Hirsch to measure the global citation performance of a set of articles. If this set is ranked in decreasing order of the number of citations that they received, the g-index is the (unique) largest number such that the top g articles received (together) at least g 2 citations. We prove the unique existence of g for any set of articles and we have that g ≥ h. The general Lotkaian theory of the g-index is presented and we show that g… Expand

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