Does the $h_{\alpha }$ index reinforce the Matthew effect in science? Agent-based simulations using Stata and R

Lutz Bornmann, Christian Ganser, Alexander Tekles +1

Recently, Hirsch (2019a) proposed a new variant of the h index called the $h_{\alpha }$ index. He formulated as follows: "we define the $h_{\alpha }$ index of a scientist as the number of papers i…