Is a measure of the level of the author's usefulness to measure both the productivity and the influence of the consultant based on the publications world, researcher or author and can build the measurement of the index on an academic journal or by a group of scientists in a department, university or country. The index was proposed in 2005 by George Eduardo Hersh, a physicist at the University of California, San Diego, was used as a tool for determining the relative quality of theoretical physics. Sometimes it is called the Hersh index or the number of Hersh.
Is a measure of the level of the author's usefulness to measure both the productivity and the influence of the consultant based on the publications world, researcher or author and can build the measurement of the index on an academic journal or by a group of scientists in a department, university or country. The index was proposed in 2005 by George Eduardo Hersh, a physicist at the University of California, San Diego, was used as a tool for determining the relative quality of theoretical physics. Sometimes it is called the Hersh index or the number of Hersh.