Article and author impact measures traditionally revolve around citation counts, but there are emerging resources for alternative metrics, such as Altmetric, Impactstory, and PlumX Metrics.
An author's h-index is defined as the largest number h such that h publications have at least h citations each. Author profiles from Google Scholar, Web of Science and Scopus display an h-index value calculated based on the publications in that source. For this reason, h-index values will vary depending on which source you consult.
You can manage your scholarly identity and visibility through a number of tactics.
