The Hirsch-index (or h-index), introduced in 2005 by Jorge Hirsch, is one of the most
popular indicators in information science and in informetrics. Hundreds of articles have been …

There is considerable debate on the use and abuse of journal impact factors and on
selecting the most appropriate indicator to assess research outcome for an individual or …

Object Assessing academic productivity through simple quantification may overlook key
information, and the use of statistical enumeration of academic output is growing. The h …

Fifty years ago in Science, D. McConnell argued that “for anything short of a monographic
treatment, the indication of more than three authors is not justifiable”(1). He was never cited …

Objectives The h-index has utility in examining the contributions of faculty members by
quantifying both the amount and the quality of research output and as such is a metric in …

The h‐index is used to evaluate scholarly productivity in academic medicine, but has not
been extensively used in anaesthesia. We analysed the publications, citations, citations per …

RESULTS Full professors (n 103) had published a mean of 165.4 reports (median 137.5),
which had been cited on average 2565.8 times (median 1925.5). Associate professors (n …

Science is becoming increasingly more interdisciplinary, giving rise to more diversity in the
areas of expertise. In such a complex environment, the participation of authors became more …

Background: Bibliometric indices are proposed measures to quantitatively and qualitatively
evaluate scholarly output within academic medicine. The authors sought to validate …

Abstract Objectives/Hypothesis: The h‐index is an accurate and reliable indicator of
scholarly productivity that takes into account relevance, significance, and influence of …