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Explainer: what is an H-index and how is it calculated?

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A previously obscure scholarly metric has became an item of heated public debate. When it was announced that Bjorn Lomborg, a researcher who is sceptical about the human causes of climate change, would be heading a research centre at the University of Western Australia, the...

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