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. 2012 Nov 15;11(22):4118–4121. doi: 10.4161/cc.22179

Table 1. Potential “rewards” in the h and in r indices for papers published in several hypothetic scenarios (see Examples 1–3 in the text).

  Example 1
 Example 2
 Example 3
Researcher L. Researcher S. Researcher G. Researcher I. Researcher C. Researcher P.
Number of first- and last-author papers
 1
 4
 4
 4
 0
 12
Number of middle-author papers
 7
 0
 8
 0
 12
 0
Possible gain in h
 8
 4
 12
 4
 12
 12
Possible gain in r 4.4 6.4 9.6 6.4 4.8 19.2