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Nature 436, 900 (18 August 2005) | doi:10.1038/436900a; Published online 17 August 2005
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Index aims for fair ranking of scientists
Philip Ball
The election procedures of scientific academies are often seen as opaque, clubby and capricious. But Jorge Hirsch, a physicist at the University of California, San Diego, may have found a way to silence those complaints, by inventing a measure of research achievement that, he says, is transparent, unbiased and very hard to rig.
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