The h-index is widely acknowledged and heavily utilized across academic institutions as a primary metric for assessing an individual researcher's productivity and impact.
The h-index is a widely used and prevalent measure for assessing an individual's academic productivity and impact.
Multiple sources consistently report that the h-index is a prevalent and extensively used metric across academic institutions, universities, and funding agencies for evaluating researcher productivity and impact. No papers refute its wide acceptance, even though several discuss its inherent limitations.