Mannella, Riccardo; Rossi, Paolo - In: Journal of Informetrics 7 (2013) 1, pp. 176-182
The time dependence of the h-index is analyzed by considering the average behavior of h as a function of the academic age AA for about 1400 Italian physicists, with career lengths spanning from 3 to 46 years. The individual h-index is strongly correlated with the square root of the total...