Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

An index to quantify an individual's scientific research output

Journal article · 2005 · Cited by 11,666

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Abstract

I propose the index h, defined as the number of papers with citation number > or =h, as a useful index to characterize the scientific output of a researcher.

DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0507655102 · Publisher: National Academy of Sciences

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