Editorial
H-index, mentoring-index, highly-cited and highly-accessed: how to evaluate scientists?
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Correspondence: Kuan-Teh Jeang kjeang@niaid.nih.gov
The National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
Retrovirology 2008, 5:106 doi:10.1186/1742-4690-5-106
Published: 25 November 2008Abstract
How best to evaluate scientists within a peer group is a difficult task. This editorial discusses the use of the H-index and total citations. It also raises the consideration of a mentoring-index and the value of understanding the frequency that a published paper is accessed by readers.