New Trends in Psychology, Vol 1, No 1 (2019)

Abstract

In December 2016 the Hirsch index was proposed as a promotion indexin the academic field. This uses as a way to assess a formula that includes thenumber of the articles published in the ISI Thomson Reuters indexed journals, andwhere an essential criterion is the number of quotations made by other authorsreported to the works of the assessed author. The current study aims at analyzing,in a less exhaustive manner, the degree at which the introduction of the Hirschindex score as an academic promoting criterion has changed the attitude of theresearchers towards the bibliographic references they cite in the scientific papersthey publish in the ISI indexed journals.