Hey everyone,

I'm using this question to instigate a discussion on our recent paper in PLoS ONE. It's essentially a new way of quantifying the impact of publications/scientists as opposed to h-index. It addresses a some well-known drawbacks of h-index and demonstrates the fairness of the new index using a simulated data set as well as two real-world citation networks. 

We started this work to address the common drawbacks we've seen in h-index and have since improved its resilience to various sorts of manipulations that are possible in h-index. We would like to know your comments/suggestions about the work we've carried out. All constructive criticism is welcome. 

Thanks in advance.

http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0134794