Scaling the h-index for different scientific ISI fields

TL;DR

This paper introduces a method to normalize the h-index across various scientific fields, aiming to prevent misuse and enable fairer comparisons of researchers' impact.

Contribution

A straightforward scaling approach for the h-index across different ISI fields to improve cross-disciplinary evaluation fairness.

Findings

The proposed scaling method effectively normalizes h-values across fields.

It reduces the potential for misuse in inter-area comparisons.

The approach is simple and easy to implement.

Abstract

We propose a simple way to put in a common scale the h values of researchers working in different scientific ISI fields, so that the previsible misuse of this index for inter-areas comparison might be prevented, or at least, alleviated.