Watkins Marley W, Chan-Park Christina Y
Department of Educational Psychology, Baylor University, USA.
University Libraries, Baylor University, USA.
J Sch Psychol. 2015 Jun;53(3):231-41. doi: 10.1016/j.jsp.2015.03.003. Epub 2015 May 15.
Hirsch's (2005) h index has become one of the most popular indicators of research productivity for higher education faculty. However, the h index varies across academic disciplines so empirically established norms for each discipline are necessary. To that end, the current study collected h index values from Scopus and Google Scholar databases for 401 tenure-track faculty members from 109 school psychology training programs. Male faculty tended to be more senior than female faculty and a greater proportion of the male faculty held professorial rank. However, female faculty members outnumbered males at the assistant and associate professor ranks. Although strongly correlated (rho=.84), h index values from Google Scholar were higher than those from Scopus. h index distributions were positively skewed with many faculty having low values and a few faculty having high values. Faculty in doctoral training programs exhibited significantly larger h index values than faculty in specialist training programs and there were univariate differences in h index values across academic rank and sex, but sex differences were not significant after taking seniority into account. It was recommended that the h index be integrated with peer review and diverse other indicators when considering individual merit.
赫希（2005年）的h指数已成为高等教育教师研究生产力最受欢迎的指标之一。然而，h指数在各学科之间存在差异，因此有必要为每个学科建立实证规范。为此，本研究从Scopus和谷歌学术数据库中收集了109个学校心理学培训项目的401名终身教职员工的h指数值。男性教师往往比女性教师资历更老，且有更大比例的男性教师拥有教授职称。然而，在助理教授和副教授级别，女性教师的人数超过男性。虽然谷歌学术的h指数值与Scopus的h指数值高度相关（相关系数ρ = 0.84），但谷歌学术的h指数值更高。h指数分布呈正偏态，许多教师的h指数值较低，少数教师的h指数值较高。博士培训项目的教师的h指数值显著高于专业培训项目的教师，且h指数值在学术职级和性别方面存在单变量差异，但在考虑资历后，性别差异并不显著。建议在评估个人功绩时，将h指数与同行评审及其他多种指标相结合。
