I just wrote a short piece over on post.news about how the h-index rose to prominence because it was a clever UI hack—and now that the UI hack is no longer needed, it may seem like a curious choice of bibliometric measure.
Here's the link if you want to read it there.
https://post.news/article/2KNv9uat3nL8CF6tIpA7eIpVGOg
I'll serialize here as well, below.
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@ct_bergstrom Are you familiar with this alternative index ("CD-index") that's referenced in this Nature paper https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-05543-x ?
@twitskeptic No -- but Erin is very good and I'm looking forward to reading the paper.