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 ...

A tool that calculates citation scores based on authorship position to give an adjusted h-index value stirred debate among ...

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 ...

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 ...

Archaeology does it again! Congratulations for ranking 1st in Canada and 3rd in North America for QS Rankings on citations per paper and H-Index citations outperforming Stanford, Yale and Princeton.

Drexel Materials researchers included in the study are Prof. Michel Barsoum, Prof. Yury Gogotsi, Postdoc Meikang Han, Prof. Christopher Li, Prof. Steven May, Research Assoc. Mykola Seredych, Prof.

Citation counts feel like scientific success, but the evidence shows they mislead more than they inform. Here’s what actually ...

Science has become obsessed with publishing numbers. With this new satirical proposal, have we reached peak metric?