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Exploring the h-type Measure and its Theoretical Model in the Context of E-Commerce


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1 School of Economics and Business Administration, Chongqing University, Chongqing 400030, China
2 Department of Information Management, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, China
 

The aim of this study is to find whether the h-index and Schubert-Glänzel model which was originally used in bibliometrics can work in the broader social and information systems, such as e-commerce. This study introduces the popularity index (hP) to profile on-line sellers and products and tests the accuracy of the Schubert-Glänzel model of the hP index using the Levenberg-Marquardt algorithm. The hP index was tested on Taobao, a leading Chinese e-commerce marketplace. About 300 products on Taobao were randomly selected from 10 categories of the most popular on-line products as samples for this study. It was found that hP is consistent with the Schubert-Glänzel model the h-index. This shows that the existing theoretical bibliometric model which was originally used in the scientific literature, could be helpful in the broader social or information systems.

Keywords

Bibliometric Measures, E-Commerce, h-Index, Popularity Index.
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Authors

Bingjia Shao
School of Economics and Business Administration, Chongqing University, Chongqing 400030, China
Feng Xiao
School of Economics and Business Administration, Chongqing University, Chongqing 400030, China
Star X. Zhao
Department of Information Management, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, China

Abstract


The aim of this study is to find whether the h-index and Schubert-Glänzel model which was originally used in bibliometrics can work in the broader social and information systems, such as e-commerce. This study introduces the popularity index (hP) to profile on-line sellers and products and tests the accuracy of the Schubert-Glänzel model of the hP index using the Levenberg-Marquardt algorithm. The hP index was tested on Taobao, a leading Chinese e-commerce marketplace. About 300 products on Taobao were randomly selected from 10 categories of the most popular on-line products as samples for this study. It was found that hP is consistent with the Schubert-Glänzel model the h-index. This shows that the existing theoretical bibliometric model which was originally used in the scientific literature, could be helpful in the broader social or information systems.

Keywords


Bibliometric Measures, E-Commerce, h-Index, Popularity Index.



DOI: https://doi.org/10.18520/cs%2Fv110%2Fi12%2F2276-2280