H – INDEX

Subject : Important Report/Index

Concept :

• The h-index is an author-level metric that measures both the productivity and citation impact of the publications of a scientist or scholar.
• The h-index correlates with obvious success indicators such as winning the Nobel Prize, being accepted for research fellowships and holding positions at top universities.
• The index is based on the set of the scientist’s most cited papers and the number of citations that they have received in other publications.
• The index can also be applied to the productivity and impact of a scholarly journal as well as a group of scientists, such as a department or university or country.
• The index was suggested in 2005 by Jorge E. Hirsch, a physicist at UC San Diego, as a tool for determining theoretical physicists’ relative quality and is sometimes called the Hirsch index or Hirsch number.