Earlier this year, French physician and microbiologist Didier Raoult generated a media uproar over his controversial promotion of hydroxychloroquine to treat COVID-19. The researcher has long pointed ...

Love it or hate it, the h-index has become one of the most widely used metrics in academia for measuring the productivity and impact of researchers. But when Jorge Hirsch proposed it as an objective ...

Many scientists worry that theirs isn't big enough. Even those who sniff that size isn't everything probably can't resist taking a peek to see how they compare with their rivals. The truly desperate ...

At the end of last year, the journal Chemistry World, published by the Royal Society of Chemistry, in the UK, decided to stop publishing an online ranking that was popular with readers. It was the ...

In the field of Law teaching, it is while filling up the promotion forms, that many get acquainted with the ‘H-Index’. Another term that appears is the journal ‘Impact Factor’. Both might be related ...

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 ...

Eminent scientist Chintamani Nagesa Ramachandra Rao, popularly known as Dr CNR Rao, has become the first Indian to reach the h-index of 100, reflecting the enormity of the body of his published ...