The prestige of social scientists in Spain and France: An examination of their h-index values using Scopus and Google Scholar

We analyze the prestige of 1,500 scholars in economics, sociology, and management who have Spanish and French institutional affiliations operationalized by their h-index in Scopus and Google Scholar. We use a negative binomial count model to examine how some individual factors affect the h-index fro...

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Published in:Minerva (London) 2019-03, Vol.57 (1), p.47-66
Main Authors: Dabos, Marcelo P, u.a
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Administration
Analysis
Ausland
Careers
Citations (References)
Documents
Economic analysis
Economics
English
English language
Foreign Countries
Foreign languages
Forschung
Frankreich
Higher Education
Hirsch index
Hochschullehrer
Indexes
Prestige
Reputation
Researchers
Science and Technology Studies
Scientific papers
Scientists
Social Science Research
Social Sciences
Sociology
Sozialwissenschaften
Spanien
Statistical analysis
Statistical significance
Wissenschaft
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Summary:We analyze the prestige of 1,500 scholars in economics, sociology, and management who have Spanish and French institutional affiliations operationalized by their h-index in Scopus and Google Scholar. We use a negative binomial count model to examine how some individual factors affect the h-index from both databases. The results show a non-monotonic relationship between the researchers' career length and their h-index. There is a positive and statistically significant relationship between total research output and the h-index. The share of publications in English over total publications has also a positive and statistically significant effect on the h-index, except in a single case, while the share of publications in other foreign languages does not have such effect. Finally, we found that the effects of the number of citations received by documents in English (international impact) and by those in the vernacular language (local or regional impact) on the h-index vary according to the database, the country, and the discipline in question. (HRK / Abstract übernommen).
ISSN:0026-4695
1573-1871
DOI:10.1007/s11024-018-9358-0