English Explanatory Dictionary

h-index

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  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.

Word forms

h-index

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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