The arbitrariness of the h-index becomes evident, when one requires q×h instead of h citations as the threshold for the definition of the index, thus changing the size of the core of the most influential publications of a dataset. I analyze the citation records of 26 physicists in order to...

Using empirical data I demonstrate that the result of performance evaluations by percentiles can be drastically influenced by the proper choice of the journal in which a manuscript is published.

The percentile-based rating scale P100 describes the citation impact in terms of the distribution of unique citation values. This approach has recently been refined by considering also the frequency of papers with the same citation counts. Here I compare the resulting P100′ with P100 for an...

We study statistical properties of energy spectra of a tight-binding model on the two-dimensional quasiperiodic Ammann–Beenker tiling. Taking into account the symmetries of finite approximants, we find that the underlying universal level-spacing distribution is given by the Gaussian orthogonal...

Using a numerical decimation method, we compute the localisation length λ2 for two onsite interacting particles (TIP) in a one-dimensional random potential. We show that an interaction U0 does lead to λ2(U)λ2(0) for not too large U and test the validity of various proposed fit functions for...

The h-index has been shown to increase in many cases mostly because of citations to rather old publications. This inertia can be circumvented by restricting the evaluation to a publication and citation time window. Here I report results of an empirical study analyzing the evolution of the thus...