Hirsch´s Index of Research Leader Chilean Universities and Its Relationship To Rankings Based on the Perception of Its Prestige

  • Jaime R. Rau Laboratorio de Ecología, Departamento de Ciencias Básicas & Programa de Educación e Investigación Biológica y Ambiental (Programa IBAM), Universidad de Los Lagos, Campus Osorno, Casilla 933, Osorno
DOI: https://doi.org/10.34096/ics.i18.842
Keywords: Bibliometrics, Chile, Hirsch´s index, Web of Science

Abstract

The Hirsch´s h-index is a new bibliometric indicator that has been considered useful to evaluate the scientific productivity of individual researchers and scientific journals. This paper  uses it to evaluate the productivity of the 15 research  universities of Chile. Since in Chile public rankings of perception of their universities are begining to be common, the article relates the h-index with a pair of rankings based on the prestige that the potential employers and students of the last level of secondary education have of them. I found that both rankings of perception were related and the same happened when they were associated to the h-index of Hirsch. The association was greater for the ranking based on the perception by potential students at those universities.

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Published
2008-06-01
How to Cite
Rau, J. R. (2008). Hirsch´s Index of Research Leader Chilean Universities and Its Relationship To Rankings Based on the Perception of Its Prestige. Información, Cultura Y Sociedad, (18), 77-84. https://doi.org/10.34096/ics.i18.842
Issue
No 18 (2008)
Section
Research

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