Jorge E. Hirsch

Jorge E. Hirsch
Professor Jorge E. Hirsch giving a talk
Born1953 (age 70–71)
Alma materUniversity of Buenos Aires (UG)
University of Chicago (PhD)
Known forInventor of h-index
Scientific career
FieldsPhysics
InstitutionsKavli Institute for Theoretical Physics
University of California, Santa Barbara
University of California, San Diego
ThesisLow-temperature thermodynamic properties of a random anisotropic antiferromagnetic chain (1980)
Websitejorge.physics.ucsd.edu

Jorge Eduardo Hirsch (born 1953) is an Argentine American professor of physics at the University of California, San Diego.[1] Hirsch received a PhD in physics from the University of Chicago in 1980 and completed his postdoctoral research at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1983. He is known for inventing the h-index in 2005, an index for quantifying a scientist's publication productivity and the basis of several scholar indices.[2][3]

  1. ^ "Jorge Hirsch". Physics.ucsd.edu. Archived from the original on 2016-11-26. Retrieved 2010-08-29.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference Hirsch2005 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ "Your h-score". Archived from the original on December 7, 2009.

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