Still
following the post above, about a paper by researchers from Norway and
Denmark, which highlighted the shortcomings of the flawed
Clarivate Analytics list of highly cited scientists, consider in the
link below the findings presented in a recent paper by scientists from the
USA and Germany, that analyzed millions of articles and hundreds of
millions of citations, having found that "a fractional analogue of the h-index outperforms other measures as a correlate and predictor of scientific awards". https://arxiv.org/pdf/2102.03234.pdf