On the Relationship Between h-index and Citations: An ECS Fellows Case Study

Abstract

The ever-expanding number of publications in the science community has motivated many investigations on methodologies to assess the impact of the papers and of researchers as authors, with the tradeoff between quality vs. quantity not far behind. This article provides a simple analysis of h-index vs. citations for the field of electrochemistry based on the total publication infometric of ECS fellows selected based on their available Google Scholar profiles. Providing a critical review of h-index is beyond the scope of this article, yet with the availability of online bibliographic information and publication databases, such investigations could be undertaken in the future.