Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

h-index

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.45 in modern English

Syllables: h-in-dex
IPA

17

Scrabble Score

6

Letters

3

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

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.

Example Sentences

"A h-index of 10 means that a researcher has published 10 papers that were cited at least ten times."

Etymology

The h stands for “highly cited” and Hirsch, since the metric was suggested in 2005 by physicist Jorge E. Hirsch.

Questions

What does h-index mean?: 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.
Where does h-index come from?: The h stands for “highly cited” and Hirsch, since the metric was suggested in 2005 by physicist Jorge E. Hirsch.

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