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		YeGoblynQueenne on Nov 20, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Karl Friston: a neuroscientist who might hold the ... >> He has an h-index—a metric used to measure the impact of a researcher’s publications—nearly twice the size of Albert Einstein’s. That can only mean the h-index is a load of rubbish.

pygy_ on Nov 20, 2018 [–]

Not really. The academic field grew tremendously in the mean time, so the comparison is rubbish, but the index isn't.

It is defined for an author as the largest number N such that as then have N articles with at least N citations.

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