Imperial College London
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Mr Alex Almoudaris BSc.(Hons.) MBBS DIC PhD FRCS(Eng.)

Faculty of Medicine, Department of Surgery & Cancer

Honorary Clinical Research Fellow
 
 
 
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+44 (0)20 3312 7651a.almoudaris

 
 
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1089Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother Wing (QEQM)St Mary's Campus

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@article{Patel:2013:10.1159/000341756,
author = {Patel, VM and Ashrafian, H and Almoudaris, A and Makanjuola, J and Bucciarelli-Ducci, C and Darzi, A and Athanasiou, T},
doi = {10.1159/000341756},
journal = {Medical Principles and Practice},
pages = {178--183},
title = {Measuring academic performance for healthcare researchers with the H index: which search tool should be used?},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000341756},
volume = {22},
year = {2013}
}
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TY  - JOUR
AB  - Objectives: To compare H index scores for healthcare researchers returned by Google Scholar, Web of Science and Scopus databases, and to assess whether a researcher’s age, country of institutional affiliation and physician status influences calculations. Subjects and Methods: One hundred and ninety-five Nobel laureates in Physiology and Medicine from 1901 to 2009 were considered. Year of first and last publications, total publications and citation counts, and the H index for each laureate were calculated from each database. Cronbach’s alpha statistics was used to measure the reliability of H index scores between the databases. Laureate characteristic influence on the H index was analysed using linear regression. Results: There was no concordance between the databases when considering the number of publications and citations count per laureate. The H index was the most reliably calculated bibliometric across the three databases (Cronbach’s alpha = 0.900). All databases returned significantly higher H index scores for younger laureates (p < 0.0001). Google Scholar and Web of Science returned significantly higher H index for physician laureates (p = 0.025 and p = 0.029, respectively). Country of institutional affiliation did not influence the H index in any database. Conclusion: The H index appeared to be the most consistently calculated bibliometric between the databases for Nobel laureates in Physiology and Medicine. Researcher-specific characteristics constituted an important component of objective research assessment. The findings of this study call to question the choice of current and future academic performance databases.
AU  - Patel,VM
AU  - Ashrafian,H
AU  - Almoudaris,A
AU  - Makanjuola,J
AU  - Bucciarelli-Ducci,C
AU  - Darzi,A
AU  - Athanasiou,T
DO  - 10.1159/000341756
EP  - 183
PY  - 2013///
SN  - 1011-7571
SP  - 178
TI  - Measuring academic performance for healthcare researchers with the H index: which search tool should be used?
T2  - Medical Principles and Practice
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000341756
UR  - http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000314751000011&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=1ba7043ffcc86c417c072aa74d649202
UR  - https://www.karger.com/Article/FullText/341756
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/77924
VL  - 22
ER  -
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