Christian Krattenthaler

What the h-index really says

(9 pages)

Zusammenfassung. This note explains that the so-called h-index (Hirsch's bibliometric index) contains essentially the same information as the total number of citations of the publications of an author, i.e., it is a useless bibliometric index. This is based on a fascinating theorem of probability theory, which is also explained here.


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