h-index basics

[Sylvan Katz]

The theory is explained in Hirsch's original paper

Hirsch, J. E. (2005). An index to quantify an individual's scientific 
research output. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the 
United States of America, 102(46), 16569-16572.


On 5/2/2012 4:33 AM, Prabir G. Dastidar wrote:
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> http://web.utk.edu/~gwhitney/sigmetrics.html Dear all,
> Regarding h-index, I have a basic question.
> Can you please help me?
> Sorry for not getting it right!
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> Question:
> h-index is the number of papers with citation number
> more than or equal to h.
> I wish to know the advantage of taking only h papers having
> more than or equal to h citations. Why not h+1 or some
> other number? What is the mathematical logic?
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> Best wishes,
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> Prabir
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