> assuming that equal time is spent on all papers. And that's exactly what makes the h-index useless, every paper has a different effort put into it. I've had

> assuming that equal time is spent on all papers. And that's exactly what makes the h-index useless, every paper has a different effort put into it. I've had papers that required 5y of work, some others only 1 month... And yet they are counted the same. Also the number of citations depends on the field, for people working across multiple fields you get papers that are highly important for a smaller community get less citations than low quality papers in a large community... Most papers are cited "by chance". Researcher type two keywords, cite paper that seem to go somewhat toward the wanted direction, rinse repeat.