A Citation Index Bridging Hirsch's h and Egghe's g

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details: , and : A Citation Index Bridging Hirsch's h and Egghe's g. PNAS Nexus, vol. 5, no. 1, pp. pgaf368, 2026.
online: DOI:10.1093/pnasnexus/pgaf368
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keywords: citation indexes, h-index, g-index, scientometrics

Abstract

We propose a new citation index ν (nu) and show that it lies between the classical h-index and g-index. This idea is then generalized to a monotone parametric family (να) (α≥0), whereby h = ν0 and ν= ν1, while the limiting value ν is expressed in terms of the maximum citation.

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