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IMPORTANCE OF RESEARCH METRICS IN SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH An Academic presentation by Dr. Nancy Agens, Head, Technical Operations, Tutors India Group www.tutorsindia.com Email: info@tutorsindia.com

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Introduction Importance of Research Metrics Importance of H-index in Research Metrics Limitations while using Hmetrics How to Improve H-index Other Types of Research Metrics Conclusion

Research metrics are considered as an important tool in assessing the academics papers for institutions or academic organizations.

Introductio n

It is utilised as the form of the quality assessment tool for performing normal science research.

The h-index is considered as the commonly used form of authorlevel metric which helps to report the author’s output depending on the total publication and total citations made in research work.

This study discussed the importance of research metrics and its difference with h-index in respect to academic research.

Importance of Research Metrics Research metrics or rather Scientometrics, is a combined word or two important words, such as Science and Metrics.

The importance of metrics is thus found in quantitative analysis, where the researcher conducts different and various scientific domains.

The citation indexes thus are found to utilise in Scientometrics.

These indexes are necessary to assess the journals and it measures the Impact Factor or IF of the article.

Importance of H-index in Research Metrics The h-index has been introduced by Hirsch in the year 2005.

It helps the researcher in calculating the research achievement in scientific research.

It depends on individual publications of the author and also the number of citation based on which publications are needed to attract.

H-index is a type of author-level metrics.

It helps to indicate the number of articles or h that is found to be cited with the least or h number of times.

Limitation s whil e usin g Hmetr ics

H-metrics can count highly cited paper irrespective of any reason of being referenced, like in the case of negative reason, this metric can be used.

The metric process sometimes limits the authors through the total number in the publications.

It does not consider the variations within in the case of an average number of the publication.

There is a relatively low resolution in the case of hmetrics.

How to Improve Hindex In the competitive environment of the university, the quantitative indicator like h-index becomes more important.

The citations are found to increase when the researcher will cite his or college and the other researcher may also follow the same.

The most important process is to increase the searching through the search machines, like, Google Scholars, Research Gate or Pub Med etc.

H-index can be increased by promoting some research papers or journals through compatible search engines.

Other Types of Researc h Metrics

Other than this author-level h-metric there are journal-level and article-level research metrics which have also some specific impact in the research field .

Impact Factor, Eigen factor or Immediacy Index are the Journal-level research metrics.

The impact factor is utilised very frequently and it is published by Journal Citation Reports or JCR. Eigen factor provides a higher weightage citation from the influential journals.

Immediacy Index indicates the average number of the article citation.

Contd..

It is considered only at the first publication of the journal or article.

Article-level metrics are utilised for quantifying the impact of the published articles.

Almetrics is considered as the alternative form of traditional citation.

Almetrics is a type of article-level metrics and it includes peer reviews, citations made on Wikipedia or any public policy documents, like research blogs, bookmarks or any media coverage etc.

Conclusio n

Therefore, the value of research metrics is very significant in scientific research as it helps to assess the quality and level of citations in research articles.

H-index is a common and popular tool in research metrics and the use of h-metrics can be improved by promoting this tool in more number of researchers.

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