h-index

Meaning

Noun

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.

Origin

The h stands for Hirsch, since the metric was suggested in 2005 by physicist Jorge E. Hirsch.

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