One criticism of h-index is that it can be biased in favour of:

The Correct answer is Researcher in fields with high citation rates.

Key Points

• The H-index was created by Jorge E. Hirsch, a physicist at the University of California, San Diego.
• It was first introduced in a paper titled "An Index to Quantify an Individual's scientific research output".
• This paper was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) in 2005.
• The H-index aims to measure both the productivity and citation impact of the publications of a scientist or scholar.
• The H-index is defined as the maximum value of h such that the given author has published h papers that have each been cited at least h times.
• This metric has become a standard tool in bibliometrics and is widely used in academic and research institutions.
• The h-index is a metric that attempts to measure both the productivity and citation impact of the publications of a scientist or scholar.
• An h-index of 10 means that the scientist has 10 papers that have been cited at least 10 times each.
• The h-index can be biased in favor of researchers working in fields with high citation rates because, in such fields, even papers with fewer citations can still contribute to a higher h-index.