more metrics - was:geek novels

Posted by Robert Holmes-2 on Nov 23, 2005; 7:06pm
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/more-metrics-was-geek-novels-tp520949.html

So all this scoring of ourselves against the geek novel list reminded me of
a couple of metrics I recently came across in Physics World. One is the
"h-index" (http://physicsweb.org/articles/news/9/8/9/1), which quantifies an
individuals scientific output as the number of papers (peer-reviewed) you
have written that have been cited at least that number of times. My h-index
is 1 (I've written one peer-reviewed paper that got cited once); real
scientists score in the 20-40 range after 20 years or so in the business. So
what's the highest h-index in FRIAM?

The Physics World correspondence that followed their item on the h-index
drew a parallel with the Eddington Number E, invented by famed astronomer
and amateur cyclist Arthur Eddington. E is defined as  the highest number of
days in your life on which you have cycled more than E miles. My E is about
15. Eddington's was 87 when he died. So who's got the highest E number here?

Robert

(h, E) = (1, 15)
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