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Your explanation (user has n submissions with a score of at least n) fails to pass one of the Wikipedia examples. ([25, 8, 5, 3, 3] should result in an h-index of 3)


There's some confusion here, I do believe my explanation means [25, 8, 5, 3, 3] has an h-index of 3.


There are 5 scores with atleast 3 points. :P


You seem to misunderstand h-index. :P

It is the highest number h for which at least h articles have >= h citations.


Yes, if there are 5 scores with at least 3 points, then there are 3 scores with at least 3 points. Of course he left out the fact that the h-index is the largest number for which the property he mentioned holds true, but that was obvious.


> So, ColinWright has 143 submissions with a score of 143 or more.

I think the way OP wrote it was slightly unclear. This is clearer to me:

So, ColinWright has 143 submissions with a score of at least 143 each.




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