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 Not relevant to your main point, but serially participating in large consortium projects (human genome, 1000 genomes, T2T) is a great way to inflate your h-index.
15 very highly cited papers over 20 years that significantly change your specialty? Not so much.
