Table 1.
A comparison between two researchers with the same total citation numbers and h indices, but different weighted citations and w, the weighted h index
| Researcher 1 | Researcher 2 | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paper number | Author number | Author rank | Regular citation | Weighted citation | Paper number | Author number | Author rank | Regular citation | Weighted citation | |
| 1 | 6 | C* | 122 | 122 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 106 | 35.3 | |
| 2 | 7 | C | 86 | 86 | 2 | 4 | C | 83 | 83.0 | |
| 3 | 8 | C | 44 | 44 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 69 | 27.6 | |
| 4 | 6 | C | 38 | 38 | 4 | 9 | 7 | 33 | 2.8 | |
| 5 | 8 | 7 | 26 | 1.9 | 5 | 10 | C | 28 | 28.0 | |
| 6 | 8 | C | 22 | 22 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 24 | 5.1 | |
| 7 | 7 | C | 19 | 19 | 7 | 7 | 5 | 16 | 2.4 | |
| 8 | 4 | C | 15 | 15 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 16 | 5.3 | |
| 9 | 3 | 2 | 12 | 8.4 | 9 | 8 | 4 | 12 | 2.2 | |
| 10 | 5 | C | 8 | 8 | 10 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 2.0 | |
| ∑citation | 392 | 364.3 | 392 | 193.7 | ||||||
| h or w | h = 9 | w = 8.3 | h = 9 | w = 5.3 | ||||||
| cac† | 0.93 | 0.49 |
*Corresponding author;
†coefficient of author contribution, which is total weighted citation/total regular citation.