#academic-metrics

#academic-metrics

The h-index - a widely used measure of impact based on publications and citation count over time - treats all of an author's papers equally, irrespective of whether they are a first, last or middle author. A browser extension called GScholarLens now aims to change that for Google Scholar users. Launched earlier this year for the Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox browsers, the tool provides a weighted metric, called the Scholar h-index (S h-index), which accounts for a researcher's position in author lists.