Comparative analysis between impact factor and h-index for pharmacology and psychiatry journals

Pascal Bador (1) , Thierry Lafouge (1)

1 ELICO - Equipe de recherche de Lyon en sciences de l'information et de la communication

Using strictly the same parameters (identical two publication years (2004-2005) and identical one-year citation window (2006)), IF 2006 was compared with h-index 2006 for two samples of "Pharmacology and Pharmacy" and "Psychiatry" journals computed from the ISI Web of Science. For the two samples, the IF and the h-index rankings of the journals are very different. The correlation coefficient between the IF and the h-index is high for Psychiatry but lower for Pharmacology. The linearity test performed between the h-index and showed the great sensitivity of the model compared with . The IF and h-index can be completely complementary when evaluating journals of the same scientific discipline.

Mots clés: Journal Impact Factor; Hirsch index; Journal ranking

Domaines: Sciences de l'information et de la communication

Pascal Bador, Thierry Lafouge. Comparative analysis between impact factor and h-index for pharmacology and psychiatry journals. Scientometrics, 2010, 84 (1), pp.65-79. ⟨hal-00588760⟩