What is H-Index?

[Ranjeet kumar]

What is H-Index?

[Arshad Ali]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H-index

[Dr. N K Pachauri]

thanks

[Dr. Ghante Pradipkumar]

 Pl find the same. 

[Jasimudeen.s]

sir
one doubt.researcher 2 and 3 mentioned in the attachement pdf have 6 papers which got citations 5 or more than 5.then how the h-index of the three researchers 5.?

[Nirmali Chakraborty]

A scholar, who is having h-index, has published h number of papers, where each of the papers has been cited in other papers at least h times. Thus, the h-index reflects both the number of publications and the number of citations per publication. The index works properly only for comparing scholars working in the same field.

[Siddhartha Shankar Ray]

Thanks Ms. Chakrabarty for explaining the issue in very simple & understandable language.

Such ways of explanations are getting extinct day by day.

Sincerely,

Siddhartha S. Ray, Calcutta

[Surajit]

Respected Mam,

I have a query regarding this 'index'. who has the authority to count this type of index(s) or which organisation is responsible for calculating those publiction for generating the indexes for scholars?

Regards,

Surajit.