Probably true in most cases.
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A high h-index implies that you work in a densely populated field with a lot of folks all working on the same thing and citing each other. This is therefore an index of how replaceable you are as a scientist.

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@brembs True and maybe even obvious. Bibliometric indices are designed to avoid reading papers, i.e. to avoid discovering what makes your research unique, and to evaluate, on the other hand, how "ordinary" it is. While pretending to worship originality, we are relentlessy striving to kill it.

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