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ADVANCED AND APPLIED SCIENCES

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 Volume 8, Issue 4 (April 2021), Pages: 23-28

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 Original Research Paper

 Title: HY-index: A new science-meter index

 Author(s): Hamdy M. Youssef 1, 2, *, Alaa A. El-Bary 3

 Affiliation(s):

 1Mathematics Department, Faculty of Education, Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt
 2Mechanical Engineering Department, College of Engineering and Islamic Architecture, Umm Al-Qura University, Makkah, Saudi Arabia
 3Basic and Applied Science Department, Arab Academy for Science and Technology, Alexandria, Egypt

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 * Corresponding Author. 

  Corresponding author's ORCID profile: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4919-2966

 Digital Object Identifier: 

 https://doi.org/10.21833/ijaas.2021.04.004

 Abstract:

In academic societies, it is essential to measure the efficiency of the researchers, scientists, institutions, departments, and universities by using a standard method that depends on their publications and citations. This work is devoted to constructing a new index that can measure the quality of the publications of any source mentioned above. The main goal of this new index is to fix the shortcoming of the current indices, such as the well-known h-index. Thus, we assumed a new index that is very sensitive to any change in the total number of publications, the total number of citations, and citations of each publication. The new index is called HY-index, is more sensitive to any change in the publications or the citations. The suggested data of the two authors have been discussed with various situations by using HY-index. This index has been applied to the authors of the recent paper as a real study case by using their data from SCOPUS. 

 © 2021 The Authors. Published by IASE.

 This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).

 Keywords: H-index, Citations number, Publications, Highly cited

 Article History: Received 10 May 2020, Received in revised form 16 August 2020, Accepted 1 December 2020

 Acknowledgment:

No Acknowledgment.

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 Conflict of interest: The author(s) declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.

 Citation:

  Youssef HM and El-Bary AA (2021). HY-index: A new science-meter index. International Journal of Advanced and Applied Sciences, 8(4): 23-28

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