What is H – Index?

18 Aug, 2020
What is H – index ? ‘H’ stands for Hirsch index as it was proposed by the J.E. Hirsch in 2005. The h-index is defined as the author-level metric that attempts to measure both the productivity and the citation impact of the publication of the scientist or the scholar.
There are two parameters to be considered –
Quantity – Numbers of papersQuality – Number of citations
Quantity – Numbers of papers
Quality – Number of citations
Basically, H-index is the largest number such that a number of publications have at least the same number of citations. As a useful index to characterize the scientific output of a researcher.
Calculating the H-index – 
For example, consider a Researcher has published total 10 papers.
H-index is always <= total numbers of papers published
For convenience let us arrange the number of citations in decreasing order.
H-index can not be 10,  because there must be at least 10 research papers which have 10 or more than 10 citations. Similarly,
   H-index can not be 9,     H-index can not be 8,     H-index is 7 as there are 7 research papers having 7 or more than 7 citations.
Example :
Input : Citations = [7, 6, 5, 4, 3]
Output : 4
Explanation : There are 5 papers in total. 
              Since the researcher has 4 papers with at least 4 citations each 
              and the remaining one paper has less than 4 citations. 
              So H-index is 4.

Approach for finding the H – index :
Sort the citation array in ascending order or descending order.Iterate from the lowest paper to the highest paper.The remaining papers (result) is the count of papers that satisfy the condition for H-index.
Sort the citation array in ascending order or descending order.
Iterate from the lowest paper to the highest paper.
The remaining papers (result) is the count of papers that satisfy the condition for H-index.
# calculating H-Indexdef H_index(citations):          # sorting in ascending order    citations.sort()          # iterating over the list    for i, cited in enumerate(citations):                  # finding current result        result = len(citations) - i                  # if result is less than or equal        # to cited then return result        if result <= cited:            return result               return 0  # creating the citationscitation = [50, 40, 33, 23, 12, 11, 8, 5, 1, 0]  # calling the functionprint(H_index(citation))
Output
7
Time Complexity : O(nlogn + n)Space Complexity : O(1)
Limitations of H – Index :
Different fields of researchers can have different citation behavior.We can not compare two researchers having different field and huge gap of research experience. Experienced researcher will have high H-index as compare to less experienced researcher.H-index value depends on the database you are using it may vary for the different platform.
Different fields of researchers can have different citation behavior.
We can not compare two researchers having different field and huge gap of research experience. Experienced researcher will have high H-index as compare to less experienced researcher.
H-index value depends on the database you are using it may vary for the different platform.
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