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The cyclist's equivalent of h is E, the Eddington Number. the largest integer n such that one had cycled at least n miles on n different days. It is painfu
by hprotagonist 6y ago
The cyclist's equivalent of h is E, the Eddington Number.
the largest integer n such that one had cycled at least n miles on n different days.
It is painful in both cases because it's a measure of reliable work, not most overall impressive work. If you write 16 papers and 15 of them are cited 15 times and one is cited 2000 times, your h is still 15!
http://www2.lowell.edu/users/jch/mtb/e.html http://www2.lowell.edu/users/jch/mtb/e.html
- medymed 6y agoMaybe an alternate distribution would be some number n such that there is one paper cited at least n times, at least two papers cited n/2 times, at least 3 cited n/3, up to n=10 or so. Allows for a bit of a tail and still easy to remember and calculate. Could dramatically shift weight toward people publishing multiple landmark papers.