Rowland Institute Library Blog

Jorge Hirsch from UCSD has come up with a factor called the h-index,
which takes into account the number of papers published by a scientist
and the number of citations for each paper.   Thus, a
scientist with an h-index of 10 would have published 10 papers that
have been cited at least ten times.  Hirsch says this is a more
accurate way of considering the output of individual scientists. 

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