Abstract
The h‐index was devised to represent a scholar's contributions to his field with respect to the number of publications and citations. It does not, however, take into consideration the scholar's position in the authorship list. I recommend a new supplementary index to score academics, representing the relative contribution to the papers with impact, be reported alongside the h‐index. I call this index the AP‐index, and it is simply defined as the average position in which an academic appears in authorship lists, on articles that factor in to that academic's h‐index.
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