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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
The h stands for “highly cited” and Hirsch, since the metric was suggested in 2005 by physicist Jorge E. Hirsch.[1]
Noun[edit]
- 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.
References[edit]
- ^ C. George Thomas (2021) “Academic Databases”, in Research Methodology and Scientific Writing, 2nd edition, Springer Nature, →ISBN, page 252: “It was originally meant as a tool for determining theoretical physicists' relative quality (Hirsch 2005), which is sometimes also called the Hirsch index or Hirsch number. The h in h-index stands for Hirsch and ‘highly cited’.”