An Index to Quantify an Individual’s Scientific Output

by J. E. Hirsch arXiv.org e-Print archive, 10 Aug 2005 The publication record of an individual and the citation record are clearly data that contain useful information. That information includes the number of papers published over n years, the number of citations for each paper, the journals where the papers were published and their impact parameter, etc. This is a large amount of information that will be evaluated with different criteria by different people. Here I would like to propose a single number, the "h-index," as a particularly simple and useful way to characterize the scientific output of a researcher. Read more