hindex: Simulating the Development of h-Index Values

H-index and h-alpha are a bibliometric indicators. This package provides functions to simulate how these indicators may develop over time for a given set of researchers and to visualize the simulation data. The implementation is based on the 'STATA' ado h-index and is described in more detail in Bornmann et al. (2019) <arXiv:1905.11052>.

Getting started

Package details

AuthorAlexander Tekles [aut, cre], Lutz Bornmann [ctb], Christian Ganser [ctb]
MaintainerAlexander Tekles <alexander.tekles@soziologie.uni-muenchen.de>
LicenseMIT + file LICENSE
Version0.2.0
Package repositoryView on CRAN
Installation Install the latest version of this package by entering the following in R:
install.packages("hindex")

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hindex documentation built on Feb. 23, 2020, 1:07 a.m.