Key Points
- As h-index use has grown in its utilization throughout academic
medicine, its critical role in promotional career advancement has also
become more important in all fields, including otolaryngology, which
highlights the need for greater awareness and guidelines that should
be provided.
- One should maintain their collaborative research profiles (ex. Scopus
or ORCID ID) including all past institutions and relevant identifiers
to improve the odds of identifying all publications linked to one’s
name.
- One should be familiar with research output metrics such as how
h-index and other values determines productivity by focusing on the
number of publications and times cited.
- When submitting original work to journals, one should opt for larger
and more well-read journals as that increases viewership and further
increases the times the work may be cited.
- Identifying areas of expertise and building on foundational and
personal work is another way to increase the number of publications as
well as citations.