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arxiv 2010.00639 v1 pith:YDPOAARZ submitted 2020-10-01 cs.DL

The h-index and the Harmonic Mean

Massimo Germano This is my paper
classification cs.DL
keywords h-indexharmonicmeannumbersimplecitationcomparisonshirsch
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The Harmonic Mean between the number of papers and the citation number per paper is proposed as a simple single-value index to quantify an individual's research output. Two simple comparisons with the Hirsch h-index are performed.

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