scholarmetrics.hindex¶

scholarmetrics.hindex(arr, ignore_nan=True)[source]¶

Calculate h-index for an author.

An h-index of x means that the author has at least x publications that have been cited at least x times.

Parameters:	arr (array-like) – Array of citations. ignore_nan (bool (optional, default=True)) – If True, ignore nan values and return 0 if all values are nan.
Returns:	hi – H-index of the author for the given citations.
Return type:	int

Examples

>>> from scholarmetrics import hindex
>>> citations = [6, 10, 5, 46, 0, 2]
>>> hindex(citations)
4

Notes

The h-index was originally proposed by Jorge E. Hirsch [h].

References

[h]	Hirsch, J. E. (2005): “An index to quantify an individual’s scientific research output”, National Academy of Sciences of the USA 102(46). DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0507655102