Pure

All researchers in Amsterdam UMC are invited! In some cases, support staff can get a personal pure account to, please contact us for more details.

By adding your ORCID to your personal file in the Human Resources (HR) registration system PeopleSoft, your Pure account will be created. This takes 1- 4 weeks. You will recieve an email when your account has been created.  For instructions how to register please go to 'How to register your ORCID in Peoplesoft'

The Pure contact person of your department can affiliate you to a research institute and programme in Pure. To register with a research institute, please contact the research institute directly.

Researchers must be affiliated to:

• At least 1 research institute and 1 research program (if the research institute has research programs).
• You can be affiliated with a maximum of 2 research institutes and a maximum of 2 programs per research institute.

The output registration team imports publications from SCOPUS on a weekly basis. When missing a publication, you can add the publication yourself.

Press the button + Add content -> in the pop-up screen, select Research output.

You can choose:

• Create from template – for manually adding research output / publications
• Import from online source – automatically import the publication

Please contact Human Resources (HR) to add or change your title in Pure. This part in Pure is synchronized with the HR system and the Pure portal. After synchronization your title will be added/changed on your profile.

The h-index is a single numerical value used to represent the combined effects of a researcher's productivity (number of publications) and impact (citations). It was first introduced by Professor Jorge Hirsch in his paper “An index to quantify an individual’s scientific research output”. The h-index is the number of publications (h) which have been cited at least (h) times each. For example, a researcher who has an h-index of 10, has at least 10 publications which have each been cited at least 10 times. It is used to:

• demonstrate productivity and impact
• benchmark peers within the same discipline (use with caution)

Applications

• Funding applications, Academic promotion, Job application

Considerations

• Due to differences in publishing and citing behaviour, h-index is not a useful comparison across disciplines
• Favours longer career lengths

Source: Adapted from https://deakin.libguides.com/research-metrics/h-index

In your Pure profile the h-index is displayed as ‘Scopus - All’, ‘Scopus – 5 -years’ or ‘Scopus 10 -years’. Depending the career stage you can select the h-index that applies to you. Click on the downward symbol to collapse menu.

Be aware, the problems with the h-index

There are serious doubts about the h-index because quality and impact do not seem to matter, only quantity. Here's some resources concerning this issue:

Bi, H.H. Four problems of the h-index for assessing the research productivity and impact of individual authors. Scientometrics (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-022-04323-8

Conroy, G., 2020. What's wrong with the h-index, according to its inventor. [Blog] nature index,  [Accessed 19 May 2022].

De Rijcke, S., 2021. Halt the h-index. [Blog] Science & Society,  [Accessed 19 May 2022].

Koltun V, Hafner D (2021) The h-index is no longer an effective correlate of scientific reputation. PLOS ONE 16(6): https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0253397

Kreiner G. (2016). The Slavery of the h-index-Measuring the Unmeasurable. Frontiers in human neuroscience, 10, 556. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2016.00556

Bron: H-Index - Publication Metrics - LibGuides at USA at University of South Alabama