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H-index concatenation

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A method for the calculation of a ‘concatenated’ h-index of jointly ranked combined bibliographies is presented in the case when only size and h-index of the original publication sets are known.

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  1. Steunpunt O&O Indicatoren, Dept. MSI, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

    Wolfgang Glänzel

  2. Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Institute for Research Policy Studies, Budapest, Hungary

    Wolfgang Glänzel

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Glänzel, W. H-index concatenation. Scientometrics 77, 369–372 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-008-2104-x

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