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	2070
No. of FAR papers	19091
No. of FAR citations	579474
Average citations per paper	30
Median citations per paper	14
Mean FAR papers per year	0.68
Median career age	9.7
Early career researchers	64.2%
Mid-career researchers	19.8%
Senior researchers	16.1%

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.