Impact factor The impact factor (IF) is a measure of the frequency with which the average article in a journal has been cited in a particular year. It is used to measure the importance or rank of a journal by calculating the times its articles are cited. The frequency with which the typical article in […]

H-index Introduction The h-index is short for the Hirsch index – Jorge E. Hirsch (2005). It’s a metric at the author level that tries to measure both the productivity and citation impact of a scientist’s or scholar’s publications. Calculating and Metric The h-index is simply a count of the largest number of papers (h) from […]