New system citation system allows cross-disciplinary review. Is this the next h-index?

Darkfrog submitted, created time 2 months 2 weeks (www.nature.com)

Ordinarily, scientists use their h-index to determine whether their articles are up to snuff, citation-wise, and the system works well enough. Everyone accepts that it cannot be used across disciplines because overall citation rates are different. An aerospace paper that has twenty citations has made a huge impact. A developmental biology paper that has a hundred citations is skimming average.

A team out of Sapienza University in Rome has come up with a new system

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