Anesthesia Service, Clement J. Zablocki Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Anesthesia Service, 5000 W. National Avenue, Milwaukee, WI 53295, USA.
Br J Anaesth. 2011 Sep;107(3):357-61. doi: 10.1093/bja/aer191. Epub 2011 Jun 23.
h-index is useful for quantifying scholarly activity in medicine, but this statistic has not been extensively applied as a measure of productivity in anaesthesia. We conducted a bibliometric analysis of h-index in editorial board members and tested the hypothesis that editorial board members of anaesthesia journals with higher impact factors (IFs) have higher h-indices.
Ten of 19 journals with 2009 IF>1 were randomly chosen from Journal Citation Reports(®). Board members were identified using each journal's website. Publications, citations, citations per publication, and h-index for each member were obtained using Scopus(®).
Four hundred and twenty-three individuals filled 481 anaesthesia editorial board positions. The median h-index of all editorial board members was 14. Board members published 75 papers (median) with 1006 citations and 13 citations per publication. Members serving on journals with IF greater than median had significantly (P<0.05; Wilcoxon's rank-sum test) greater median h-index, citations, and citations per publication than those at journals with IF less than median. A significant correlation between the median h-index of a journal's editorial board members and its IF (h-index=3.01×IF+6.85; r( 2)=0.452; P=0.033) was observed for the 10 journals examined. Board members of subspeciality-specific journals had bibliometric indices that were less than those at general journals. The h-index was greater in individuals serving more than one journal. European editorial board members had higher h-index values than their American colleagues.
The results suggest that editorial board members of anaesthesia journals with higher IFs have higher h-indices.
h 指数在量化医学领域的学术活动方面非常有用，但尚未广泛应用于麻醉学领域的生产力衡量。我们对编辑委员会成员的 h 指数进行了文献计量学分析，并检验了一个假设，即影响因子（IF）较高的麻醉学期刊的编辑委员会成员具有更高的 h 指数。
从期刊引证报告（®）中随机选择了 10 种 IF>1 的 19 种期刊中的 10 种。使用每个期刊的网站确定编委会成员。使用 Scopus（®）获取每个成员的出版物、引文、每篇出版物的引文和 h 指数。
423 人担任了 481 个麻醉学编委会职位。所有编委会成员的中位数 h 指数为 14。编委会成员发表了 75 篇论文（中位数），有 1006 次引文和 13 次引文/篇。在 IF 高于中位数的期刊上任职的委员比在 IF 低于中位数的期刊上任职的委员具有显著更高的中位数 h 指数、引文和引文/篇（P<0.05；Wilcoxon 秩和检验）。在所检查的 10 种期刊中，期刊编辑委员会成员的中位数 h 指数与 IF 之间存在显著相关性（h 指数=3.01×IF+6.85；r²=0.452；P=0.033）。专业期刊的编委会成员的文献计量学指标低于普通期刊。在服务于多个期刊的委员中 h 指数更高。欧洲编委会成员的 h 指数值高于他们的美国同事。
结果表明，IF 较高的麻醉学期刊的编辑委员会成员具有更高的 h 指数。
