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h-index

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Summary

h-index is a citation index[1]. h-index ranks in the top 10% of citation index entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (13,331 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Field of work: scientometrics[3]
  • Discoverer or inventor: Jorge E. Hirsch[4]
  • Instance of: bibliometric indicator[5], author-level metrics[6]
  • Commons category: Hirsch index[7]
  • Publication date: September 29, 2005[8]
  • Described by source: Open Science Thesaurus[9]
  • Used by: citation analysis[10]

Why It Matters

h-index has Wikipedia articles in 28 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[11] h-index is known by 51 alternative names across languages and contexts.[12]

Related Entities

Open Science Thesaurus scientometrics

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [6] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . arxiv.org. arxiv.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . data.loterre.fr. Retrieved . data.loterre.fr. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [11] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [12] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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    Discoverer or inventor → Jorge E. Hirsch
    Publication date → +2005-09-29T00:00:00Z
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