TY - JOUR T1 - Scientific index: a complementary scale for the h-index JF - BMJ Evidence-Based Medicine JO - BMJ EBM DO - 10.1136/bmjebm-2018-110967 SP - bmjebm-2018-110967 AU - Zahid Hussain Khan AU - Masoud Nashibi AU - Seyed Amir Javadi Y1 - 2018/05/04 UR - http://ebm.bmj.com/content/early/2018/05/04/bmjebm-2018-110967.abstract N2 - Scientists are customarily categorised based on their seminal and extraordinary contributions as being top, medium and low, and in this regard the ‘h-index’ is usually cited as a pivotal index to demarcate the scientific credibility of scientists. The h-index was initially proposed by Hirsch1 to provide a global impact of a scientist’s contributions. The h-index, however, provides a rough approximation to a scientist’s multifaceted profile and thus fails to reflect a scientist’s cumulative scientific and research accomplishments. Having said that, some genuine criticisms have cropped … ER -