Date: 7/6/2008
TUMSPR: The faculty members of Tehran University of Medical Sciences (TUMS) have the highest H- index compared to those from other medical sciences universities.
In an interview with Public Relations’ reporter, the head of TUMS publications office, Dr. Etemadi, said that the faculty members of TUMS had achieved the highest H-index among all the state's medical sciences universities.
He based his sayings on the report published by Iran's ministry of Health and Medical Education. He explained that 42 faculty members of TUMS have had an h-index of more than 6, meaning that each had had at least 6 papers and each paper cited at least 6 times. The evaluation had included faculty members and not non-faculty researchers.
The second rank had been achieved by another university with 13 faculty members, depicting a noticeable distance from TUMS. He also said that the list might have not been flawless as some people's names might have been with different dictations, etc.
[The H-index reported by the ministry should have been based on one of databases active in calculating the value!]
The h-index (highly-cited index) was developed in 2005 by Professor Hirsch, a condensed matter physicist at the University of California in San Diego, to qualify the impact and quantity of an individual’s research performance. Professor Hirsch states in the introduction to his paper that most researchers seek to gain a better understanding of the impact of their work"1, “For the few scientists who earn a Nobel Prize, the impact and relevance of their research is unquestionable. How does one quantify the cumulative impact and relevance of an individual’s scientific research output?2
‘The h-index is most often used to evaluate an individual author’s body of work but can also be extended to evaluate a user-specified collection of selected articles.
The formula:
A scientist has index h if h of his or her NP (number of papers) have at least h citations each.
The benefits of the h-index
• Puts the author’s career into context.
• Provides visual aids that make the metric transparent.
• Enables the evaluation of authors and groups of authors within a specific subject area.
• Allows the filtering of researchers who are not prolific or rarely cited.
• Makes it easier to compare and contrast the performance of groups of authors and researchers.
• Helps journal publishers and editors to find qualified reviewer’1.
1- Research Performance Measurement: Introducing the Scopus h-index
http://www.info.scopus.com/setup/promo/promo_material/docs/WPRPM_EN_0707_LO.pdf-
2- Hirsch, JE, An index to quantify an individual’s scientific research output, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Volume 102, Issue 46, 15 November 2005, Pages 16569-16572.
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