Wu, Jiang; Lozano, Sergi; Helbing, Dirk - In: Journal of Informetrics 5 (2011) 4, pp. 489-497
calculate and classify the real career h-index sequences of scientists. Such a classification is based on the convexity …–concavity features of the different temporal segments of h-index sequences. Five categories are identified, namely convex, concave, S …-shaped, IS-shaped and linear. As a case study, the h-index sequences of several Nobel Prize winners in Medicine, Chemistry and …