Table 1.

Example of h indices for different publication records

Paper	Citations
	Scientist A	Scientist B
1	51	6
2	34	5
3	29	4
4	22	4
5	3	3
6	1	3
7	0	2
8	–	2
9	–	1
10	–	0
11	–	0
h	4	4

Two scientists with the same h index: scientist A with few, highly cited papers and scientist B with many rarely cited papers.