I have zero citation and don't know what is my h index; and I am good with it, don't want to have any of them; if people are reading my work and some how, it is helping them, I am happy with this thing.

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Please have a look at this useful RG link.

https://www.researchgate.net/post/How_to_increase_your_h_index_and_paper_citation#post-comment-editor

Thank you Muhammad Younas Arvind Singh

I find the following answer from RG

- Conduct research and deliver quality science/technology

- Publish the research findings in good journals

- Upload your publications (at least abstracts) in the academic and scientific websites for a wide circulation among the world scientific community.

Reading your work by the researchers will support to enhance the number of citations of your papers that in turn will increase your H-Index

By conducting research that answers a question to resolve an actual problem rather than academic research per say. Collaboration with practitioners and industry leaders helps improve the research relevance and chances of being cited.

Thank you Gulzar Shah

@ Dr. Samy Selim

The topic of citation and h-index improvement has been discussed several times on this forum. Please have a look at these old RG threads.

https://www.researchgate.net/post/How_to_increase_my_citations

https://www.researchgate.net/post/How_do_I_increase_the_number_of_citations_for_my_paper

https://www.researchgate.net/post/Easy_Ways_to_Increase_Citation_Count

https://www.researchgate.net/post/How_we_can_improve_our_h_index

https://www.researchgate.net/post/How_can_one_improve_the_H-index

https://www.researchgate.net/post/How_to_improve_the_h-index

https://www.researchgate.net/post/what_is_suggest_the_best_ways_to_increase_H-Index

Thanks!

Agree with Dr Gulzar Shah and Dr Arvind Singh comments

Thank you Dr. Lamia Al-Naama

Publishing high quality papers in peer reviewed scientific journals is the best way to improve your citations and h-index.

Please also see the following RG links.

Article How to improve your citation count.

Article H-index and How to Improve it?

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Thank you Dr. Segun Michael Abegunde

The best way is to share your papers with as many people as possible. Try to make your publications as visible as possible. Upload them on various academic platforms, such as ResearchGate, Academia, PhilPaper, Sementic Scholar, and etc. Furthermore, make sure you publish in a reputable journal and avoid predatory publishers.

It significantly depends on the quality of the paper. However, it also depend a type of the paper. Commonly, a review or meta analysis paper and method paper are more often cited in the science community, which are not quite related to the quality of the paper. That is the reason why scholarly journals prefer to those types of the papers to the original papers. Furthermore, multiple authors also influence how many the paper can be cited because each author can promote the paper in multiple ways, widening the possibility of the paper's being exposed to the media and potential readers. Multidisciplinary research is also in the same line with the ripple effect brought by the multiple authors. For example, my paper (Article Optimizing Staffing, Quality, and Cost in Home Healthcare Nu...

There are no short cuts! Instead of publishing crap, concentrate on papers which has some material inside. If you feel that you have produced something worthwhile, send them to some good quality journals ( of course, with good JIF or CiteScore). I am sure your citations and h index will increase!

Thank you Dr. C George Thomas, Dr. Claire Su-Yeon Park and Dr. Abdullah Noori

I have zero citation and don't know what is my h index; and I am good with it, don't want to have any of them; if people are reading my work and some how, it is helping them, I am happy with this thing.

By offering solutions to a specific problem discussed during the research or introducing a new idea ...

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agree with M. Abdullah Noori

A simple definition of the h-indexThe h-index was originally defined by J. E. Hirsch in a Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences article as the number of papers with citation number ≥ h. An h-index of 3 hence means that the author has published at least three articles, of which each has been cited at least three times. The h-index can also simply be determined by charting the article's citation counts. The h-index is then determined by the interception of the chart's diagonal with the citation data. In this case there are 3 papers that are above the diagonal, and hence the h-index is 3.The definition of the h-index comes with quite few desirable features:

• First, it is relatively unaffected by outliers. If e.g. the top ranked article had been cited 1,000 times, this would not change the h-index.
• Second, the h-index will generally only increase if the researcher continues to produce good work. The h-index would increase to 4 if another paper was added with 4 citations, but would not increase if papers were added with fewer citations.
• Third, the h-index will never be greater than the number of papers the author has published; to have an h-index of 20, the author must have published at least 20 articles which have each been cited at least 20 times.

A step-by-step outline how to calculate your h-index

• Step 1: List all your published articles in a table.
• Step 2: For each article gather the number it has been cited.
• Step 3: Rank the papers by the number of times they have been cited.
• Step 4: The h-index can now be inferred by finding the entry at which the rank in the list is greater than the number of citations.

Here is an example of a table where articles have been ranked by their citation count and the h-index has been inferred to be 3.