it's easy to remove self-citation, but it's hard (and unfair) to detect and remove citations in the case you mentioned "a small community ... publishing lots of low-quality papers and citing each other a lot. "
Microsoft Academic Search already supports H-index and G-index for authors. for example: http://academic.research.microsoft.com/Author/508835.aspx
to report and correct identical names, you can cick the <edit> button on top of each author's profile page, then you can make changes to his/her hompage, affilication, papers, etc. you can even contribute papers.
> 2. what's the real world impact of the publications? (citations are not real world impact.) so any suggestions on real world impact? winning a Turing Award?
it's easy to remove self-citation, but it's hard (and unfair) to detect and remove citations in the case you mentioned "a small community ... publishing lots of low-quality papers and citing each other a lot. "
Microsoft Academic Search already supports H-index and G-index for authors. for example: http://academic.research.microsoft.com/Author/508835.aspx
to report and correct identical names, you can cick the <edit> button on top of each author's profile page, then you can make changes to his/her hompage, affilication, papers, etc. you can even contribute papers.
> 2. what's the real world impact of the publications? (citations are not real world impact.) so any suggestions on real world impact? winning a Turing Award?