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An Index to Quantify an Individual's Scientific Research Output.
Hirsch, Jorge E. "An Index to Quantify an Individual's Scientific Research Output." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 102, no. 46 (2005): 16569-16572.
Why this matters here
Hirsch’s 2005 PNAS paper proposes the h-index as a single integer summarizing an individual’s scientific research output via citation patterns. When Incentives Become the Moral Language places that tool among portable influence measures that hiring and funding systems absorb even when the original intent was narrower. Hirsch offers a quantification method; the book asks what happens when careers compress into comparable integers and institutions need fairness they can count.
