The w-index: A significant improvement of the h-index
Qiang Wu
TL;DR
The paper introduces the w-index, a new metric for evaluating a researcher's impactful papers, claiming it as a significant improvement over the traditional h-index.
Contribution
It proposes the w-index, a simple and effective alternative to the h-index for measuring research impact, especially highlighting excellent papers.
Findings
w-index emphasizes highly cited papers
w-index is easier to interpret
w-index improves assessment of research impact
Abstract
I propose a new measure, the w-index, as a particularly simple and useful way to assess the integrated impact of a researcher's work, especially his or her excellent papers. The w-index can be defined as follows: If w of a researcher's papers have at least 10w citations each and the other papers have fewer than 10(w+1) citations, his/her w-index is w. It is a significant improvement of the h-index.
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