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Hi If you need the h-index for your institution, you can do it with Scopus, but I would agree that the h-index is not relevant for institutions. Just search for an institution, select all articles and then press the View citations overview button. You’ll have to enter your email address since the information take more time to process than a regular request. [Description : ETS-web-rouge+devise-ecran] Jean-François Ruest, M.S.I. | Bibliothécaire Service de la bibliothèque École de technologie supérieure | 1100, rue Notre-Dame Ouest | Montréal (Qc) Canada | H3C 1K3 Tél.: 514 396-8800, poste 7275 | Télécopieur: 514 396-8633 | Bureau A-0256 | www.etsmtl.ca<http://www.etsmtl.ca/> [Description : image002] L’ÉTS est une constituante du réseau de l’Université du Québec De : A bibliometrics discussion list for the Library and Research Community [mailto:[log in to unmask]] De la part de Stephen Pearson Envoyé : 2 avril 2014 06:19 À : [log in to unmask] Objet : Re: H Index for an Organization I've just checked SciVal, and when I tried to use the Benchmarking module to obtain an h-index for one or more organisations, it gave me the error message 'Some metrics are not displayed in the table, because they are not relevant for all entities.' So it looks as if SciVal doesn't consider the h-index to be a 'relevant' metric for an institution. Stephen Stephen Pearson Research Information Analyst The University of Manchester Library The University of Manchester Oxford Road Manchester M13 9PP (email: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>) (tel: 0161-275 7389) (fax: 0161-273 7488) From: A bibliometrics discussion list for the Library and Research Community [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Elizabeth Gadd Sent: 02 April 2014 08:42 To: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> Subject: Re: H Index for an Organization If you subscribe to Thomson Reuters’ Incites it will calculate you an h-index for your institution, but it doesn’t provide comparative h-indices for other institutions (as far as I can see). Colleagues with a subscription to SciVal may be able to advise whether it does the same. Best wishes Elizabeth Elizabeth Gadd Change Projects Team Vice-Chancellor’s Office Room 201.0.27 Hazlerigg Building Loughborough University LE11 3TU Tel: +44 (0)1509 222308 [better-web-banner 20PC] Let us know how we might do things better http://www.lboro.ac.uk/better/ From: A bibliometrics discussion list for the Library and Research Community [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of CHARLES OPPENHEIM Sent: 02 April 2014 07:46 To: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> Subject: Re: H Index for an Organization No reason why one cannot do this using your formula, using the author address field to source the hits in, say, Web of Knowledge, and then doing a citation report on the resulting outputs. I have done this very informally in unpublished analyses of University Departments. However, it must be recognised that such a measure is inherently flawed for the reason you give (people moving in and out of the organisation), as well as inconsistency in using addresses by both authors, and databases recording them. So by all means do it for fun, but be aware of the limitations if attempting to compare different organisations. Charles Professor Charles Oppenheim ________________________________ From: Dr. Mirza Muhammad Naseer <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> To: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> Sent: Wednesday, 2 April 2014, 5:07 Subject: H Index for an Organization Dear LIS Colleagues, Can any bibliometerician provide information on how to calculate H Index for an organization? Can we define H Index for an organization (Hirsch's definition from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H_Index#Calculation modified) as: An organization has index h if h of her Np papers have at least h citations each, and the other (Np − h) papers have no more than h citations each. What about the papers which a scientist / scholar has produced while he /she was affiliated to some other organization? Will these papers be excluded to calculate H Index of the organization where he / she is now working? Is there any organization which provides facility to calculate organizational H Index? If yes, is this service free of fee based? Regards, Mirza Muhammad Naseer, PhD Assistant Professor (LIS) Institute of Space Technology (IST) Islamabad. Pakistan.