Comparison of Scientific Bibliographic Productivity in Undergraduate Courses of Speech-Language and Hearing Science at Universidade of S o Paulo using the Hirsh＊s Index

作者：R D Herculano; A M Queiros Norberto

来源：Journal of Applied Sciences, 2009.

• Scientific publication indicators
• periodical index
• bibliometric indicators

The Universidade de S o Paulo has three undergraduate courses of speech-language and hearing science offer by Faculdade de Medicina (FM), Faculdade de Odontologia de Bauru (FOB) and Faculdade de Medicina de Ribeir o Preto (FMRP). Recently was proposed by J.E. Hirsch, the new scientometric indicator, the h-index. We observed that bibliometric evaluations using papers indexed by ISI presented closely similar results: FM (2.77), FOB (2.58) and FMRP (3). As already excepted, the h-index presented also similar results: FM (0.85), FOB (0.83) and FMRP (0.71). Notice however, a greater means of papers indexed by Curriculum Lattes of undergraduate course of speech-language and hearing science offered by FM (34.92) when compared to FOB (21) and FMRP (13.71). The three undergraduate course of Universidade de S o Paulo presented lower h-index because had fewer papers indexed by the ISI. It occurs, because most speech-language and hearing science papers are published in journal not indexed by ISI and therefore they are not considered in the calculation of the h-index.