Impact Factors
I have been collecting data on citations of my own work for a number of years and recently dramatically expanded the calculations and wrote a guide to the concepts for biologists (rather than for those better versed in bibliometrics and scientometrics) (2nd version; updated 5/13/13). Below I am providing many up-to-date impact factors for myself. All of these metrics (and others) are explained in the linked manuscript. Make of it what you will.
The code for calculating all of these (and other) metrics can be found on Github.
Data updated through 2012
| Raw Data | |
|---|---|
| Total Publications | 50 |
| Total Citations | 3,538 |
| Citations per Publication | 70.8 |
| Maximum Citations | 1,069 |
| Core Definitions | |
| h-index | 27 |
| g-index | 50 |
| f-index (Tol) | 36 |
| t-index (Tol) | 41 |
| μ-index | 39 |
| w-index (Woeginger) | 43 |
| h(2)-index | 9 |
| w-index (Wu) | 9 |
| hg-index | 36.7 |
| Full Citation Indices | |
| rational h-index | 28.0 |
| real h-index | 27.0 |
| W(q) | 9(15) |
| tapered h-index | 38.7 |
| j-index | 29.8 |
| w-index (Wohlin) | 407.1 |
| Core Description Indices | |
| v-index | 54.0% |
| a-index | 66.0 |
| m-index | 69 |
| r-index | 57.5 |
| rm-index | 16.1 |
| weighted h-index | 49.0 |
| π-index | 21.9 |
| q2-index | 43.2 |
| e-index | 50.8 |
| maxprod index | 1069 |
| Core vs. Tail Indices | |
|---|---|
| h2-upper index | 72.7% |
| h2-center index | 20.5% |
| h2-tail index | 6.8% |
| k-index | 897.8 |
| p-index | 61.6 |
| ph-ratio | 2.3 |
| multidimensional h-index | (27, 9, 4, 3, 2, 1, 1, 1) |
| Multiple-Author Indices | |
| hi-index | 7.2 |
| pure h-index | 13.9 |
| adapted pure h-index | 24.3 |
| hf-index/normalized hi-index | 22 |
| hF-index/hm-index | 17.6 |
| gf-index | 38 |
| gF-index | 26.0 |
| fractional p-index | 44.7 |
| profit p-index | 0.53 |
| profit adj. h-index | 21 |
| profit h-index | 0.22 |
| Self-Citation Indices | |
| sharpened h-index (self only) | 25 |
| b-index (avg. self rate) | 25.5 |
| sharpened h-index (self/coauthor) | 24 |
| b-index (avg. self/coauthor rate) | 23.7 |
| b-index (assume 10% rate) | 24.9 |
| Time-based Indices | |
| m-quotient | 1.7 |
| ar-index | 18.9 |
| dynamic h-type-index | 104.0 |
| hpd-index | 28 |
| contemporary h-index | 20 |
| trend h-index | 26 |
| impact vitality | 0.46 |
| specific-impact s-index | 13.4 |
| f-index (Franceschini & Maisano) | 17 |
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Core indices through time
% of citations in upper, center, and lower part of h-core through time
Fun Facts
The following are not impact factors, but are rather just fun numbers for those familiar with their meaning.
- Erdös Number = 3 (M.S. Rosenberg → Mark R.T. Dale → John W. Moon → Paul Erdös)
- Bacon Number = 2 (M.S. Rosenberg* → Charles Durning → Kevin Bacon)
- Erdös-Bacon Number = 5
* Many years ago, I was an on-screen, identifiable extra in a movie