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Noun

1. 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."

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"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.

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