Katherine H. Kenyon, Arjun Paramasivam, Jiachin Tu, Albert Zhang, Alister W. Graham
Expanding upon Pimbblet's informative 2011 analysis of career h-indices for
members of the Astronomical Society of Australia, we provide additional
citation metrics which are geared to a) quantifying the current performance of
b) all professional astronomers in Australia. We have trawled the staff
web-pages of Australian Universities, Observatories and Research Organisations
hosting professional astronomers, and identified 383 PhD-qualified,
research-active, astronomers in the nation - 131 of these are not members of
the Astronomical Society of Australia. Using the SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data
System, we provide the three following common metrics based on publications in
the first decade of the 21st century (2001-2010): h-index, author-normalised
citation count and lead-author citation count. We additionally present a
somewhat more inclusive analysis, applicable for many early-career researchers,
that is based on publications from 2006--2010. Histograms and percentiles, plus
top-performer lists, are presented for each category. Finally, building on
Hirsch's empirical equation, we find that the (10-year) h-index and total
citation count T can be approximated by the relation h =
(0.5+\sqrt{T})/\sqrt{5} for h > 5.
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http://arxiv.org/abs/1202.4051
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