h-index
noun
High School
1
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.
“A h-index of 10 means that a researcher has published 10 papers that were cited at least ten times.”
The h stands for “highly cited” and Hirsch, since the metric was suggested in 2005 by physicist Jorge E. Hirsch.
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