# Citation indices and dimensional homogeneity

**Authors:** Gangan Prathap  
**arXiv:** [1701.00612](https://arxiv.org/abs/1701.00612)  
**Date:** 2017-01-03  
**Summary page:** https://www.summarizepaper.com/fr/paper/1701.00612v1/

## Abstract

The importance of dimensional analysis and dimensional homogeneity in bibliometric studies is always overlooked. In this paper, we look at this issue systematically and show that most h-type indices have the dimensions of [P], where [P] is the basic dimensional unit in bibliometrics which is the unit publication or paper. The newly introduced Euclidean index, based on the Euclidean length of the citation vector has the dimensions [P3/2]. An empirical example is used to illustrate the concepts.