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Nature 436, 900 (18 August 2005) | doi:10.1038/436900a; Published online 17 August 2005
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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