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Misdiagnosis: "The fear of h-index dilution" is a disease of h-
idiots. You cannot dilute an h-index, just as you cannot make Bill Gates
poor by sending him lots of small checks.
Omission: You forgot the Horne-Petrie-Wessely syndrome, known as H-
syndrome. Nice job on the reference list!
Competing interests:
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Competing interests:
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21 December 2009
Thomas V Perneger
epidemiologist
Geneva University Hospitals, CH-1211 Geneva, Switzerland
A misdiagnosis, and an omission
Misdiagnosis: "The fear of h-index dilution" is a disease of h-
idiots. You cannot dilute an h-index, just as you cannot make Bill Gates
poor by sending him lots of small checks.
Omission: You forgot the Horne-Petrie-Wessely syndrome, known as H-
syndrome. Nice job on the reference list!
Competing interests:
None declared
Competing interests: No competing interests