Impact & Engagement

H index

The h index is a metric for evaluating the cumulative impact and quality of an author’s research output and performance. H indexes compare the number of publications to the number of citations achieved.  The h index corrects for the disproportionate weight of highly cited publications or publications that have not yet been cited. Publication indexing databases automatically calculate a researchers h index.

Check your h index

Do an author search for yourself in Scopus.

Click on your name to display the number of publications, citations and h index.

Things to consider :

• Citation patterns vary across disciplines. For example, h indexes in Medicine are much higher than in Mathematics
• h indexes are dependent on the coverage and related citations in the database calculating the h index
• h indexes changes over time so recalculate it each time you need to include it in a document.