h-index

noun

Etymology

The h stands for “highly cited” and Hirsch, since the metric was suggested in 2005 by physicist Jorge E. Hirsch.

Definitions

  1. 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.

    • A h-index of 10 means that a researcher has published 10 papers that were cited at least ten times.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for h-index. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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