i10-Index

The i10-index is a deliberately simple author-level metric introduced by Google Scholar in 2011 for its Scholar Citations profiles. It counts the number of a researcher's publications that have each accumulated at least ten citations. Unlike the h-index, whose threshold depends on the rank of the paper, the i10-index applies a single fixed cutoff, making it transparent and trivial to compute. Its appeal lies in this simplicity and in its native availability on every Google Scholar profile, though it is used almost exclusively within the Google Scholar ecosystem and offers less discriminating power than rank-based indices.