Collaborating with leading researchers and having co-authors from diverse academic backgrounds are key factors in building an individual’s h-index, a metric used to gauge a researcher’s academic ...

Drexel Materials Professor Yury Gogotsi, PhD, whose research as founder and director of the A.J. Drexel Nanomaterials Institute and member of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering has ...

Identifying influential nodes in dynamical processes is crucial in understanding network structure and function. Degree, H-index and coreness are widely used metrics, but previously treated as ...

For nearly two decades, many scientists have relied on the h-index—which measures the productivity and citation impact of a researcher’s publications—as a yardstick of academic success. 1 However, ...

Researchers propose a new citation index that balances productivity and impact in academic publishing. The h-index of citations was introduced in 2005 by a physicist Jorge E. Hirsch. This index is ...