A free editing service for developing country researchers who are trying to publish their work has been launched by students from leading academic institutions. The service, SciEdit, is run by a team of undergraduate and postgraduate students in Canada, Europe and the United States. They aim to provide detailed editorial feedback in accordance with the standards of journals such as Nature and Science - where many of them have been published.
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In 2005, Jorge E Hirsch of UCSD published this paper in PNAS in which he put forward the h-index as a metric for measuring and comparing overall scientfic productivity of individual scientists. The h-index has been quickly adopted as the metric of choice for many committees and bodies.