H-index: Determination of Academic Leaders in Pediatrics from Iraq

Bibliometric assessments have been increasingly used to quantitatively and qualitatively assess the scientific/research productivity of academic leaders in various field of medicine. However, emphasis has been increasingly made that paying no attention to the authorship role of the researcher and his/her order in publications can lead to a misleading H-index that is completely not relevant to academic leadership determination. The use of a corrected H-index calculated from the papers that are really authored by an individual author who should be among the first three authors has been increasingly recommended. The first step of this research was to determine the Iraqi pediatricians, who have H-index of 15 or more at Google Scholar Citation. The second step was to determine the corrected H-index and scientific productivity and academic output of the authors found. Aamir Jalal Al-Mosawi was the only Iraqi pediatrician who had H-index of 15 or more at Google Scholar Citation. The H-index and the corrected H-index of Aamir Jalal Al-Mosawi were both 16 as he didn’t have and published paper that he was not among the first three authors.