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What is Hirsch Index (H-Index)

Chapter 442
Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, Third Edition
An index developed by Hirsch (2005) to assign a numerical value to a scholar’s achievement by factoring both the number of publications and the number of citations attributable to him or her.
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Citation Analysis and Theory
James Tsung Juang Wang (National Taipei University of Technology, Taiwan)
Copyright: © 2015 |Pages: 9
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-5888-2.ch442
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