Google Scholar Metrics is designed to help authors "gauge the visibility and influence of recent articles in scholarly publications." Towards that goal, Google Scholar Metrics assigns publications a variety of rankings based upon Google's h-index.
H-index is based on h-core, which "is a set of top cited h articles from" a given publication. "The h-median is a measure of the distribution of citations to the h-core articles." Search results display h-index and h-median scores for publications based on the last 5 complete calendar years.
For more information on the methodology and data sources behind the rankings, see Google Scholar Metrics Questions? page.
Within Google Scholar, locate the menu in the upper left corner.
The top publications are listed by h5-index. You can search for a publication by clicking on the search icon in the upper right corner.
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