The G-index is a metric used to assess the productivity and citation impact of academic publications. It is an enhancement of the more commonly known h-index. The G-index was proposed by Leo Egghe in 2006 and aims to address some of the limitations of the h-index. ### Definition: The G-index is defined such that a researcher has a G-index of "g" if they have published "g" papers that have each received, on average, at least "g" citations.
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