Prasad, Rose; Prasad, S. Benjamin - In: Applied Financial Economics 19 (2009) 21, pp. 1697-1704
If in fine arts imitation is the most sincere form of flattery, in natural and social sciences, it is citation by one's peers. A fairly good measure of the frequency of citation, or impact, is indicated by the Hirsch-Index (h-index) which quantitatively gauges the impact of articles in core...