Will This Paper Increase Your h-index?

Scientific impact plays a central role in the evaluation of the output of scholars, departments, and institutions. A widely used measure of scientific impact is citations, with a growing body of literature focused on predicting the number of citations obtained by any given publication. The effectiveness of such predictions, however, is fundamentally limited by the power-law distribution of citations, whereby publications with few citations are extremely common and publications with many citations are relatively rare. Given this limitation, in this work we instead address a related question asked by many academic researchers in the course of writing a paper, namely: “Will this paper increase my h-index?” Using a real aca

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2015
• Where: PKDD
• Authors: Yuxiao Dong, Reid A. Johnson, Nitesh V. Chawla
• Keywords: Data Mining, PKDD 2015