Confronta i metodi

	H-Index	SCImago Journal Rank
Campo	Bibliometria	Bibliometria
Famiglia	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Anno di origine	2005	2010
Ideatore	Jorge Hirsch, University of California San Diego	SCImago Group (Spanish research consortium)
Tipo	Metric	Metric
Fonte seminale	Hirsch, J. E. (2005). An index to quantify an individual's scientific research output. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, 102(46), 16569-16572.	González-Pereira, B., Guerrero-Bote, V. P., & Moya-Anegón, F. (2010). The SJR indicator: A new indicator of journals' scientific prestige. Scientometrics, 82(2), 391-400.
Alias	Hirsch index, h factor, h-number	SJR, SCImago Journal Rank, Prestige-weighted impact
Correlati	5	5
Sintesi	The h-index, or Hirsch index, is a quantitative metric proposed by physicist Jorge Hirsch in 2005 to measure researcher productivity and citation impact simultaneously. A researcher has an h-index of h if they have published at least h papers, each cited at least h times. For example, an h-index of 20 means the researcher has 20 papers each cited at least 20 times. The h-index is widely used in research evaluation, hiring, and promotion decisions, though experts debate its limitations. It provides a single number balancing quantity of publications against quality of citations, offering an intuitive summary of research career impact.	SCImago Journal Rank (SJR) is a prestige-weighted metric measuring journal citation impact based on Scopus data, developed by SCImago Group (a Spanish research consortium) in 2010. Unlike raw citation counts, SJR values citations from high-prestige journals more heavily than those from lower-prestige journals, similar to Google's PageRank algorithm. This prestige weighting approach accounts for field-specific citation cultures and provides fairer cross-discipline comparisons than raw impact factor. SJR is widely used for journal ranking, quality assessment, and publication targeting, complementing traditional Impact Factor with a prestige dimension.