Are there similarities between the aggregate lists found on infloox and the so-called “h-index” used in academia?
We have not designed our product with any similarity in mind. However, looking at what we have created, we can see some similarities, although vague. Through the h-index, the academic world attempts to rank intellectuals, writers, thinkers and academics based on the frequency with which their respective works are cited in other articles or books. These lists, of course, are for the most part generated electronically, and they do give a very good sense of who, in general as well as with respect to specific groups, are the most influential writers. As a similarity to this specific academic practice, we at infloox seem to be doing, among other things, something vaguely related, relying for our part not on academic citations, but rather on biographical (ideally recurrent or life-long) preferences of individual famous people who somehow seem (directly, indirectly or conjecturally) to “cite” (so-to-speak) specific works as their favourites.
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