The h-index is an attempt at measuring the productivity and impact of a scientist or scholar based on his/her total body of work and citation counts in other publications. The h-index can be used for various scholarly tenure and promotional purposes. The following are detailed steps for calculating a researcher’s h-index using the Scopus database.

1. Click Scopus under TOP DATABASES on the Library homepage
2. Click the Author Search tab in Scopus
3. Enter the researcher’s last name, first initial, and affiliation (using simply sloan kettering for our organization)
4. Click the green magnifying glass button to search
5. Locate the researcher from the list of results and click on the name to view their profile
6. Out of the links at the top of the profile, choose View h-graph

Aside from the actual h-index number displayed on the screen, you’ll notice that a nice visual is generated providing all published works and their number of citations. You can also update this graph to include only specific years of publications if you like.

For more help with calculating your or another researcher’s h-index, please Ask Us! We would be happy to provide further details on using Scopus or another database for finding an h-index.

Some of our MSK Library users have reported problems with accessing PubMed over the last week or so.  Should this happen to you, this is what we recommend you do:

• Try a different browser.  It appears that the problem has been resolving itself best – or has not been present at all – when using Google Chrome.
• Try clearing out your favorite browser’s cache.
• If you get a browser error message, go back and try clicking on MSK Library’s PubMed link again…and then again. The problem appears to be random and multiple attempts may solve it.

If after trying these tips you still have trouble accessing PubMed, please contact the library at asklibrarian@mskcc.org or call 212-639-7439.

A common question MSK Librarians get about EndNote is how to get the journal abbreviations to display correctly in the formatted citation when a particular output style calls for the journal title to be abbreviated. To have the abbreviated journal titles available in your Endnote program, you must first load a Journals Term List into each EndNote Library file in which you may want to use the abbreviations. The process is a bit complex, so feel free to ASK US if you need further help. Here are the instructions: Continue reading →