Modification of h-index in the context of the author's contribution to writing of the article

Abstract

The given article displays a modified h-index in the context of the author's contribution to writing of cited article. Each author has his/her own counting number in the authors list. These numbers are suggested as a criterion of co-authors’ individual contribution to articles. The presented method does not also give the authors any advantages in h-index determination with account of their research portfolio. This balances odds of young specialists in improving their scientific grade evaluated in h-index. It is evident that the most effective is the article which was written be no more than 6 authors. At more number of co-authors, the h-index of only the first three and the last authors has the significant value of the article.

Keywords

• h-index
• citations
• ranking
• co-authorship
• author contributions
• multi-authored articles