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The g-index is an index for quantifying productivity in science, based on publication record (an author-level metric). It was suggested in 2006 by Leo Egghe.[1]
The index is calculated based on the distribution of citations received by a given researcher's publications, such that given a set of articles ranked in decreasing order of the number of citations that they received, the g-index is the unique largest number such that the top g articles received together at least g2 citations.
It can be equivalently defined as the largest number n of highly cited articles for which the average number of citations is at least n. This is in fact a rewriting of the definition
as
The g-index is an alternative for the older h-index, which does not average the numbers of citations. The h-index only requires a minimum of n citations for the least-cited article in the set and thus ignores the citation count of very highly cited papers. Roughly, the effect is that h is the number of papers of a quality threshold that rises as h rises; g allows citations from higher-cited papers to be used to bolster lower-cited papers in meeting this threshold. Therefore, in all cases g is at least h, and is in most cases higher.[1] However, unlike the h-index, the g-index saturates whenever the average number of citations for all published papers exceeds the total number of published papers; the way it is defined, the g-index is not adapted to this situation.
The g-index has been characterized in terms of three natural axioms by Woeginger (2008).[2] The simplest of these three axioms states that by moving citations from weaker articles to stronger articles, one's research index should not decrease. Like the h-index, the g-index is a natural number and thus lacks in discriminatory power. Therefore, Tol (2008) proposed a rational generalisation.[3]{{Clarify|reason=What rational generalization did he propose?|date=April 2010}}
Tol also proposed a collective g-index.
Given a set of researchers ranked in decreasing order of their g-index, the g1-index is the (unique) largest number such that the top g1 researchers have on average at least a g-index of g1.
References
2. ^{{cite journal |last1=Woeginger |first1=Gerhard J. |author-link=Gerhard J. Woeginger |year=2008 |title=An axiomatic analysis of Egghe's g-index |journal=Journal of Informetrics |volume=2 |issue=4 |pages=364–368 |doi=10.1016/j.joi.2008.05.002}}
3. ^{{cite journal |last1=Tol |first1=Richard S.J. |year=2008 |title=A rational, successive g-index applied to economics departments in Ireland |journal=Journal of Informetrics |volume=2 |issue=2 |pages=149–155 |doi=10.1016/j.joi.2008.01.001}} preprint
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