Comparative Analysis of Impact Factor and h-index for Pharmacology Journals.

Comparative Analysis of Impact Factor and h-index for Pharmacology Journals. Using the strictly same parameters (identical two publication years (2004-2005) and identical one-year citation window (2006)), Impact Factor (IF) 2006 was compared with h-index 2006 for one sample of "Pharmacology and Pharmacy" journals computed from the ISI Web of Science. For this sample, the IF and the h-index rankings of the journals are very different. The correlation coefficient between the IF and the h-index is low for "Pharmacology and Pharmacy" journals. The IF and h-index can be completely complementary when evaluating journals of the same scientific discipline.