Looking at high level numbers like citations is the cope. For instance, an individual researcher can have very high h-index scores while it would give no indic

Looking at high level numbers like citations is the cope. For instance, an individual researcher can have very high h-index scores while it would give no indication the relative merit of another researcher who has h-index score 1/100 of the original. The numbers are so context dependent as to become meaningless in almost all comparisons.