Question

How to work out the value of h.

Answer 1

The h-index can be calculated automatically in Web of Science and Scopus or manually in other databases that provide citation information (e.g. SciFinder, PsychINFO, Google Scholar). The index is based on a list of publications ranked in descending order by the number of citations these publications received. The value of h is equal to the number of papers (N) in the list that have N or more citations.
Before you can calculate your h-index, you will need a complete publication list. The procedures to do this in Web of Science and in Scopus are listed below.