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---
id: h-index
title: H-Index (LeetCode)
sidebar_label: 0274-H-Index
tags:
- Array
- Sorting
- Counting Sort
description: Given an array of integers citations where citations[i] is the number of citations a researcher received for their ith paper, return the researcher's h-index.
sidebar_position: 0274
---

## Problem Description

Given an array of integers citations where citations[i] is the number of citations a researcher received for their ith paper, return the researcher's h-index.According to the definition of h-index on Wikipedia: The h-index is defined as the maximum value of h such that the given researcher has published at least h papers that have each been cited at least h times.

### Example 1

- **Input:** ` citations = [3,0,6,1,5]`
- **Output:** `3`
- **Explanation:**[3,0,6,1,5] means the researcher has 5 papers in total and each of them had received 3, 0, 6, 1, 5 citations respectively.
Since the researcher has 3 papers with at least 3 citations each and the remaining two with no more than 3 citations each, their h-index is 3.

### Example 2

- **Input:** `citations = [1,3,1] `
- **Output:** `1`

### Constraints

- `n == citations.length`
- `1 <= n <= 5000`
- `0 <= citations[i] <= 1000`

## Approach
Create a function hasLeastCitations with a parameter h to check if there are at least h papers with >= h citations. When hasLeastCitations(x) is true, hasLeastCitations(x-1) is also true. This means that hasLeastCitations is a monotonic function, so we can binary search for the highest h for which it return true. This h is our h-index.

### Solution Code

#### C++

```c++
class Solution {
public:
bool hasLeastCitations(int h, vector<int>& citations) {
int count = 0;
for (int cite_count : citations) {
if (cite_count >= h)
count++;
}
return count >= h;
}
int hIndex(vector<int>& citations) {
int low = 0, high = citations.size();
while (low <= high) {
int mid = (low + high) / 2;
if (hasLeastCitations(mid, citations))
low = mid + 1;
else
high = mid - 1;
}
return high;
}
};
```

#### Java
```java
class Solution {
static boolean hasLeastCitations(int h, int[] citations) {
int count = 0;
for (int cite_count : citations) {
if (cite_count >= h)
count++;
}
return count >= h;
}
public int hIndex(int[] citations) {
int low = 0, high = citations.length;
while (low <= high) {
int mid = (low + high) / 2;
if (hasLeastCitations(mid, citations))
low = mid + 1;
else
high = mid - 1;
}
return high;
}
}
```

#### Python
```python
class Solution:
def hIndex(self, citations: List[int]) -> int:

def hasLeastCitations(h, citations):
return sum(cite_count >= h for cite_count in citations) >= h

low = 0
high = len(citations)
while low <= high:
mid = (low + high) // 2
if hasLeastCitations(mid, citations):
low = mid + 1
else:
high = mid - 1
return high

```

#### Conclusion
- Time Complexity

- 1. Sorting is O(nlogn)

- 2. Looping is O(n)

- The total time complexity as O(n log n).

- Space Complexity
The only memory we allocate is the integer h, so the space complexity is O(1).
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