The h index is the best measure of a scientist's research productivity

Medical Physics

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1043-1045

  Baldock, Clive ^a   Ma, Ruimin ^b   Orton, Colin G ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

H INDICES; RESEARCH PRODUCTIVITY;

ARTICLE; MEASUREMENT; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRODUCTIVITY; BIBLIOMETRICS; HUMAN; MANPOWER; PERSONNEL; PUBLICATION; PUBLISHING; RESEARCH; SCIENCE; STATISTICS;

BIBLIOMETRICS; HUMANS; JOURNALISM, MEDICAL; PERIODICALS AS TOPIC; RESEARCH; RESEARCH PERSONNEL; SCIENCE;

EID: 63849299208     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3089421     Document Type: Article

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