paper

Spam: It's Not Just for Inboxes and Search Engines! Making Hirsch h-index Robust to Scientospam

arXiv:0801.0386

Abstract

What is the 'level of excellence' of a scientist and the real impact of his/her work upon the scientific thinking and practising? How can we design a fair, an unbiased metric -- and most importantly -- a metric robust to manipulation?

2 figures, 3 tables