Sat, 26 Jul 2008 17:09:38 BST CiteULike: bigbossman Hirsch http://www.citeulike.org/user/bigbossman/author/Hirsch CiteULike.org en-gb Copyright © 2004-2008 citeulike.org http://www.citeulike.org/user/bigbossman/article/1998138 <i>Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (26 November 2007), 0707962104.</i><br /><br />Bibliometric measures of individual scientific achievement are of particular interest if they can be used to predict future achievement. Here we report results of an empirical study of the predictive power of the h index compared with other indicators. Our findings indicate that the h index is better than other indicators considered (total citation count, citations per paper, and total paper count) in predicting future scientific achievement. We discuss reasons for the superiority of the h index. 10.1073/pnas.0707962104 Does the h index have predictive power? JE Hirsch doi:10.1073/pnas.0707962104 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (26 November 2007), 0707962104. 2007-11-28T00:17:55-00:00 2007 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 0707962104 h-index