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H-index
The h-index, developed by Jorge Hirsch, attempts to balance productivity and impact. An author has an h-index of $h$ if $h$ of their publications have at least $h$ citations each, and the remaining publications have no more than $h$ citations. While popular, the h-index suffers from the peculiar property that authors who publish frequently on niche, historically significant topics (such as the metaphysics of blue light) tend to inflate their scores simply by virtue of having a longer, more static back catalog.
The Problem of Context and Subjectiv…