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11 Ways to calculate (your) H-Index : free and otherwise

I bumped into a blog post from ChemConnectorBlog about free tools to calculate your h-index. This was posted already in 2011 and I got curious if there would be more tools available right now. Here is a short summary of tools that can be used: (If I missed some, please let me know via Comments please!) The Central Medical Library advices to use Web of Science (ISI)  to calculate your h-index. Within the UMCG this is still the generally accepted citation resource & tool. We help patrons setting up their ResearcherID and Google Scholar Citations. ResearcherID from Thomson Reuters   offers Citation Metrics, including your h-index to be calculated from your publications. We calculate the h-index for patrons on request either via  Web of Science (ISI)  or via "Publish or Perish" This free software makes it possible for librarians (or patrons) to create the h-index for themselves or for others.(Note: risk of getting banned temporarily from Google Scholar ...

Web of Knowledge "Bug" in export, Thomson Reuters needs to repair

We discovered a bug in the Web of Knowledge export functionality. A line break is missing in the plain text export, causing a malfunctioning import into Reference Manager and other complex databases (Access). The line seperating between each record is missing. After extensive communication with Thomson Reuters, they now admit there is a bug, that will be fixed with the next release of Web of Knowledge. Unsure is when that release will be. We are requesting Thomson Reuters to repair as soon as possible, within a week at least. The Research Office of the University Medical Center Groningen has it's own workflow and detailed systems running to  evaluating the quality of Research within our institute and usually have to finish this part of the job by the March, 15. This included large downloads from Web of Science en EMBASE. Apart from internal analysis and research evaluation, it is used to publish a list of all publications every year. Read more on their workflow here:  ht...