In my Shiny app, I made a simple interactive plot that enables the user to select multiple points and learn about the scientific contributions of the selected countries.

What the Shiny app looks like

H Index takes into account the number of publications an author has produced but also how many times they were cited. This way, it’s a little better than just measuring scientific productivity by how many papers are being pushed out (low quality papers probably won’t get cited as much… hopefully).

In the next slide, I present a graph that ranks the top ten countries in the dataset based on H index.