An index to quantify an individual's scientific research output that takes into account the effect of multiple coauthorship

TL;DR

The paper introduces the  index, a new metric for evaluating individual scientific output that accounts for coauthorship effects by considering citation counts relative to coauthors.

Contribution

It proposes the  index, a novel measure that adjusts for multiple coauthorship effects in assessing a researcher's scientific impact.

Findings

 index effectively incorporates coauthorship influence.

It provides a more nuanced assessment of individual research contributions.

The index is based on citation counts relative to coauthors'  values.

Abstract

I propose the index $\hbar$ ("hbar"), defined as the number of papers of an individual that have citation count larger than or equal to the $\hbar$ of all coauthors of each paper, as a useful index to characterize the scientific output of a researcher that takes into account the effect of multiple coauthorship. The bar is higher for $\hbar$.