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more metrics - was:geek novels

Posted by Giles Bowkett on Nov 23, 2005; 7:15pm
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/more-metrics-was-geek-novels-tp520949p520950.html

h, E = 0, 0

(yikes.)

On 11/23/05, Robert Holmes <rholmes62 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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