Kongo, Takumi - In: Journal of Informetrics 8 (2014) 1, pp. 252-258
We axiomatize the well-known Hirsch index (h-index), which evaluates researcher productivity and impact on a field, and formalize a new axiom called head-independence. Under head-independence, a decrease, to some extent, in the number of citations of “frequently cited papers” has no effect...