Kelly Clint D, Jennions Michael D
School of Botany & Zoology, The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia.
Trends Ecol Evol. 2006 Apr;21(4):167-70. doi: 10.1016/j.tree.2006.01.005. Epub 2006 Feb 3.
Growing demand to quantify the research output from public funding has tempted funding agencies, promotion committees and employers to treat numerical indices of research output more seriously. So many assessment exercises are now conducted worldwide that traditional peer assessment is threatened. Here, we describe a new citation-based index (Hirsh's h index) and examine several factors that might influence it for ecologists and evolutionary biologists, such as gender, country of residence, subdiscipline and total publication output. We suggest that h is not obviously superior to other indices that rely on citations and publication counts to assess research performance.
量化公共资金资助的研究成果的需求不断增加，促使资助机构、晋升委员会和雇主更加重视研究成果的量化指标。如今，全球范围内开展了如此多的评估活动，以至于传统的同行评估受到了威胁。在此，我们描述一种新的基于引用的指标（赫希的h指数），并研究可能影响生态学家和进化生物学家的该指标的几个因素，如性别、居住国、子学科和总出版物产出。我们认为，h指数并不明显优于其他依赖引用和出版物数量来评估研究绩效的指标。
