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. 2012 Nov 7;7(11):e46428. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0046428

Table 1. Descriptive statistics regarding astronomers with m above the mean and riq below the mean (quadrant B), astronomers with riq above the mean and m below the mean (quadrant D), and the overall population (all quadrants).

quadrant B quadrant D all quadrants
size 1,221 1,300 11,036
number of publications 59.79 71.86 64.02
number of first authored publications 5.94 17.35 12.57
career start, year 1,993.1 1,977.1 1,983.5
career length, years 17.6 31.4 25.9
citations accrued, total 2,078.5 1,666.4 1,931.9
citations accrued, normalized 116.8 654.4 429.8
h-index 21.73 19.78 19.12
tori 1.81 19.66 9.55