H-Index for Hansen and Lindzen

[wonderingmind42]

Could someone knowledgeable calculate the H-index for both James Hansen and Richard Lindzen?

Thanks!

Greg

[776281]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hirsch_number

Subscription-based databases such as Scopus and the Web of Knowledge provide automated calculators

Anyone got access?

H index does not distinguish between citations agreeing and citations criticising an author. Does not distinguish between fields of study.

[Tempest Stormwind]

I don't have access to either, not even from this ISP (my lab account). Otherwise, I would.

776281, the H-index isn't perfect, but it's good enough to show the basic impacts of the two scientists. I warned Greg about the limitations when I mentioned it to him earlier, but it's good enough for our purposes.

[Ted]

http://scholar.google.com/scholar?num=30&hl=en&lr=&newwindow=1&safe=off&q=author%3Ars-lindzen&btnG=Search

is a cheap alternative. Gives Lindzen 394 hits but I can't count the number of citations.

http://scholar.google.com/scholar?num=30&hl=en&lr=&newwindow=1&safe=off&q=author%3Aje-hansen&btnG=Search

gives 1470 hits for Hansen.

Should also recognise that sometimes an 'author' name appears on a paper when that person has had minimal input to the actual work - maybe only a review. More to do with ego and status boosting of the other authors if they get a 'star name' on their paper.

[Ted]

I'd have to say scrub those figures for Hansen as there are clearly multiple authors in the Google Scholar result set - unless Jim has been moon-lighting writing such seminal works as "Enterprise Development with Visual Studio. NET" and "A deterministic algorithm for automatic CMOS transistor sizing".

[Tempest Stormwind]

I know it's late, but for those who are interested, I did stumble upon something great.

Check this. (http://dotearthaction.wordpress.com/our-actions/e-z-climate-contrarian-list-detector-no-experience-needed/). You'll need Firefox with GreaseMonkey (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/748) installed to use the script (http://warming101.com/scripts/citestatsForGoogleScholar.html) yourself.

It's pretty crude by its author's admission, but the results it shows are rather striking.

Testing this on Hansen (takes some doing, since there's another J Hansen who publishes in those fields) returns:
J Hansen: 2820 totalcites / 100 papers cited = 28.2 cites/paper
Testing this on Lindzen gives us:
RS Lindzen: 45 totalcites / 7 papers cited = 6.4 cites/paper