I’d recommend a “b-factor”. How many times has anybody found it worthy of blogging? The citation index and the h-index is broken and is hardly a measure of the “influence” or the “impact”. They are more abstruse conceptual ideas for grant committees and I am not surprised that why science and medicine is distanced away from the people for whom they are working.
Based on the definition of the well-known
[1508.02179] t factor: A metric for measuring impact on Twitterh index we propose at factor for measuring the impact of publications (and other entities) on Twitter. The new index combines tweet and retweet data in a balanced way whereby retweetsare seen as data reflecting the impact of initial tweets. Thet factor is definedas follows : A unit (single publication, journal, researcher, research group etc.) has factort ift of its Nt tweets have at leastt retweets each and the other (Nt-t ) tweets have <=t retweets each.
Blogging is difficult, if not impossible. One reason I post blurbs here is because each individual idea gets encompassed in the thought process to see an overall picture. I call this as “combinatorial creativity”.