Jorge E. Hirsch
Jorge Eduardo Hirsch (born 1953) is an Argentine American professor of physics at the University of California, San Diego. Hirsch received a PhD in physics from the University of Chicago in 1980 and completed his postdoctoral research at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1983. He is known for inventing the h-index in 2005, an index for quantifying a scientist's publication productivity and the basis of several scholar indices.
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Professor Jorge E. Hirsch giving a talk | |
| Born | 1953 (age 70–71) |
| Alma mater | University of Buenos Aires (UG) University of Chicago (PhD) |
| Known for | Inventor of h-index |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Physics |
| Institutions | Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics University of California, Santa Barbara University of California, San Diego |
| Thesis | Low-temperature thermodynamic properties of a random anisotropic antiferromagnetic chain (1980) |
| Website | jorge.physics.ucsd.edu |
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