Abstract

RAU, Jaime R.. Hirsch's index of  research leader chilean universities and its relationship to rankings based on the perception of  its prestige. Inf. cult. soc. [online]. 2008, n.18, pp.77-84. ISSN 1514-8327.

The Hirsch's h-index is a new bibliometric indicator that has been considered useful to evaluate the scientific productivity of individual researchers and scientific journals. This paper  uses it to evaluate the productivity of the 15 research  universities of Chile. Since in Chile public rankings of perception of their universities are begining to be common, the article relates the h-index with a pair of rankings based on the prestige that the potential employers and students of the last level of secondary education have of them. I found that both rankings of perception were related and the same happened when they were associated to the h-index of Hirsch. The association was greater for the ranking based on the perception by potential students at those universities.

Keywords : Bibliometrics; Chile; Hirsch's index; Web of Science.

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