h-index
h-index · h-indexes
An author-level metric that attempts to measure both the productivity and the citation…An author-level metric that attempts to measure both the productivity and the citation impact of the publications of a scientist or scholar, based on a set of most cited papers and the number of citations in other publications.
Meaning
1 sensesAn author-level metric that attempts to measure both the productivity and the citation impact of the publications of a scientist or scholar, based on a set of most cited papers and the number of citations in other publications.
Origin
The h stands for “highly cited” and Hirsch, since the metric was suggested in 2005 by physThe h stands for “highly cited” and Hirsch, since the metric was suggested in 2005 by physicist Jorge E. Hirsch.
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