Chapter 15: A Google Scholar h-index for journals

Note: A revised and condensed version of this chapter was published as: Harzing, A.W.K.; Wal, R. van der (2009) A Google Scholar H-Index for Journals: An Alternative Metric to Measure Journal Impact in Economics & Business?, Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, vol. 60, no. 1, pp 41-46.

• 15.1 Introduction
• 15.2 Methods
• 15.3 Results and discussion of the benchmarking analysis
• 15.3.1 Overall comparison of JIF and h-Index
• 15.3.2 Overall comparison w/h psychology journals and major outliers
• 15.3.3 Analysis of individual sub-disciplines
• 15.3.4 Numerical analysis of the divergence between JIF and h-Index
• 15.4 Discussion and conclusions
• 15.5 References