{"id":11239,"date":"2019-11-25T11:26:30","date_gmt":"2019-11-25T11:26:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.edgehill.ac.uk\/ls\/?p=11239"},"modified":"2019-11-25T11:26:30","modified_gmt":"2019-11-25T11:26:30","slug":"is-my-h-index-showing-correctly-in-pure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.edgehill.ac.uk\/ls\/2019\/11\/25\/is-my-h-index-showing-correctly-in-pure\/","title":{"rendered":"Is my H-index showing correctly in Pure?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

You may notice that the H-index in your Pure profile shows a different number to the one on Google Scholar. Here we explain why…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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An Edge Hill University Pure profile displaying the academic’s H-Index<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

What is the h-index?<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The H-index<\/a> is a measure to show a researcher’s productivity and impact. Although convenient as an assessment tool, it has received valid criticism because it favours older, male academics<\/a> and assumes ‘citations = impact’, when it has been shown that the practice can be manipulated<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As an academic at Edge Hill University, your Pure profile will display your H-index by default (see above image). This though, can show a different number to the H-index displayed in a Google Scholar profile. Here is the same author’s h-index in Google Scholar: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The same person’s h-index displayed in Google Scholar<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

This shows the total h-index to be 49, so 13 points higher than the number quoted in Pure. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why the difference?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The reason for the difference is that the figure in Pure is taken from Scopus<\/a>, not Google Scholar. H-index numbers are lower in Scopus compared with Scholar because there is less content – Scopus has around 43 million items, whereas Scholar has been estimated to include around 300 million<\/a> \u2013 far more than any other database. This doesn\u2019t make Scopus an inferior source, it indexes high quality journals admitted on the basis of merit, whereas Scholar uses a powerful algorithm to pull in anything it can find on the web that \u2018looks\u2019 academic. This includes dissertations, theses, and some poor or even so-called \u2018predatory\u2019 journals. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why use the number from Scopus?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

On a practical basis, Scopus is used because both it and Pure are Elsevier products, and as such can exchange data. Google Scholar however, does not share such data with other platforms. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

What should I do?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

If you don’t want to display your Scopus h-index, you edit the setting and do this. Go to: edit profile > Portal Profile > untick the box.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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When editing your Pure profile, you can choose to stop displaying the H-index<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

For more information please contact Liam Bullingham, Research Support Librarian: liam.bullingham@edgehill.ac.uk<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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