HelioIndex - General Statistics

The table below gives some general information about authors and their publication statistics derived from HelioIndex. The acronym FAR stands for "first authored refereed".

Statistic	Result
No. of authors	2338
No. of FAR papers	21981
No. of FAR citations	684627
Average citations per paper	31
Median citations per paper	15
Mean FAR papers per year	0.68
Median career age	10.2
Early career researchers	62.8%
Mid-career researchers	19.9%
Senior researchers	17.2%

The graphs below show distributions for mean FAR papers per year (top), career age (middle) and age-corrected h-index (bottom). The latter is the h-index minus the career age.