
H-index: advantages
- Seen as a fairer alternative than simply counting total papers or times cited.
- It is a popular performance indicator commonly used by scientists. It is popular because it is an indicator based on the researcher's own work rather than solely on the "journal" they have published in.
- As a metric it is considered fair as it discounts the disporoportionate weight of highly cited papers or papers that have yet to be cited.
- It is easy to compute!
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