Does it matter which citation tool is used to compare the h-index of a group of highly cited researchers?

• Main Authors: Farhadi, Hadi, Salehi, Hadi, Yunus, Melor Md, Chadegani, Arezoo Aghaei, Farhadi, Maryam, Fooladi, Masood, Ebrahim, Nader Ale
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: American-Eurasian Network for Scientific Information, Jordan 2013
• Subjects: AC Collections. Series. Collected works; L Education (General); LC Special aspects of education; T Technology (General); Z Bibliography. Library Science. Information Resources; Libraries (General); Information resources (General)
• Online Access: http://eprints.um.edu.my/7615/1/198-202.pdf; http://eprints.um.edu.my/7615/; http://www.ajbasweb.com/old/ajbas/2013/March/198-202.pdf

h-index retrieved by citation indexes (Scopus, Google scholar, and Web of Science) is used to measure the scientific performance and the research impact studies based on the number of publications and citations of a scientist. It also is easily available and may be used for performance measures of s...