Upgrade StorageImporting H-index (or other bibliometric info) into Zotero
Does anybody know of a way to (automatically) retrieve the H-index for academic journals (or for authors) into Zotero? We developed a little Zotero-plugin a while back, for instance, that allows you to add some meta-tags to Zotero records based on which academic discipline a journal is categorized under. See https://github.com/swashbuckler/zotero-classify-articles.
But so would it be possible to do sthg similar for journals' H-indices? The information appears to be available at Microsoft Academic Research (e.g. for social sciences, see http://academic.research.microsoft.com/RankList?entitytype=4&topDomainID=22&subDomainID=0&last=0&start=1&end=100) Or for authors? For instance, somebody made a cool Google Scholar gadget for this: http://code.google.com/p/citations-gadget/. All of this is far from perfect, but it would offer at least SOME indication of the presumed 'authority' of the journal or the author.
But so would it be possible to do sthg similar for journals' H-indices? The information appears to be available at Microsoft Academic Research (e.g. for social sciences, see http://academic.research.microsoft.com/RankList?entitytype=4&topDomainID=22&subDomainID=0&last=0&start=1&end=100) Or for authors? For instance, somebody made a cool Google Scholar gadget for this: http://code.google.com/p/citations-gadget/. All of this is far from perfect, but it would offer at least SOME indication of the presumed 'authority' of the journal or the author.
I'll say that from a bibliometric perspective, judging article quality by journal impact factors or H-index (for journals????) is a giant no-no. Literally every serious bibliometric researcher thinks it's a bad idea.
There's a useful summary in
Lariviere, Vincent, Veronique Kiermer, Catriona J. MacCallum, Marcia McNutt, Mark Patterson, Bernd Pulverer, Sowmya Swaminathan, Stuart Taylor, and Stephen Curry. 2016. “A Simple Proposal for the Publication of Journal Citation Distributions.” BioRxiv, July, 062109. https://doi.org/10.1101/062109.