How it is possible to carry out information search including Hirsh's index by using Thomson Reuters?

To determine the rating of a scientific institution and the rating of scientists, bibliometric indicators are used: citation index, Hirsch index, impact factor, self-citation index, efficiency index, aging indicators of articles.

Currently, this citation base is owned by Thomson Reuters. The Russian-language website of Thomson Reuters http://wokinfo.com/russian/ gives recommendations for working with "Web of Sciences." (Maps).

The citation system "Scopus" is the world's largest single multidisciplinary reference database (since 1995), which is updated daily. Scopus is the most extensive database of scientific publications without full texts. Scopus covers more than 15 thousand scientific journals from 4 thousand scientific publishing houses of the world, including about 200 Russian magazines, 13 million US patents, Europe and Japan, materials of scientific conferences. Scopus in contrast to the Web of Science in percentage terms is much more reflective of natural science and technology - 83%.

The Hirsch index was proposed in 2005 by the American physicist Jorge Hirsch of the University of San Diego, California.

Hirsch characterized his index as follows: the scientist has an index h if h from his Np articles are cited at least h times each, while the remaining (Np-h) articles are cited no more than h times each. In other words, the scientist with the index h published h articles, each of which was referred to at least h times.

For example,

The scientist published 8 articles, including:

1 article is cited 5 times,

1 article is cited 6 times,

1 of the article is cited 3 times,

1 article is cited 1 time,

1 article is cited 4 times,

1 article is cited 6 times,

1 article is cited 4 times,

1 of the article is cited 2 times.

What is the Hirsch index?

We see that:

2 articles are cited 6 times,

3 articles are cited 5 times or more,

5 articles are quoted 4 times or more,

6 articles are cited 3 times and more and so on.

Thus, the h-index is 4, since 4 articles are quoted at least 4 times.

For example, an h-index of 8 means that scientists have published at least 8 papers, each of which has been cited 8 or more times. At the same time, the number of papers cited fewer times can be arbitrary. Similarly, the h-index for a scientific journal, organization or country can be calculated.

The Hirsch index is a quantitative characteristic of the scientist's productivity for the entire period of scientific activity; it is presented in the Scopus and Web of Science databases. The h-index can also be calculated using free public databases on the Internet - for example, using Google Scholar (it's convenient to use the free program Publish or Perish). It should be borne in mind that the data of free services can be incomplete; In addition, for Russian researchers due to the peculiarities of transcription of the names and titles of Russian journals, the value of the h-index is usually understated. The value of the h-index according to Scopus data is often lower than in the Web of Science. Scopus takes citations into account since 1995.

Like any formal indicator, the h-index has its advantages and disadvantages. The merits of the index include the fact that it will be equally low for both the author of one superpopular article, and for the author of a set of works cited no more than once.

Explain distinctions in process of publication of article in the magazine with an impact-factor and the republican magazine.

To increase the chances of publication:

You can get published by writing a review or a response

Writing reviews is a good way to get published - especially for people who are in the early stages of their career. It’s a chance to practice at writing a piece for publication, and get a free copy of a book that you want.

Ask a colleague to check your work

One of the problems that journal editors face is badly written papers. It might be that the writer’s first language isn’t English and they haven’t gone the extra mile to get it proofread. It can be very hard to work out what is going on in an article if the language and syntax are poor.

It is necessary to try to make simple sentences, without complication and complex terms.
So that the editors could not lose time, you can find a scientist who will read your publication and write a review

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