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Abhishek Chaudhary
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H-Index

Given an array of integers citations where citations[i] is the number of citations a researcher received for their ith paper, return compute the researcher's h-index.

According to the definition of h-index on Wikipedia: A scientist has an index h if h of their n papers have at least h citations each, and the other n − h papers have no more than h citations each.

If there are several possible values for h, the maximum one is taken as the h-index.

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

SOLUTION:

import bisect

class Solution:
    def hIndex(self, citations: List[int]) -> int:
        n = len(citations)
        citations.sort()
        for h in range(n, -1, -1):
            if h <= n - bisect.bisect_left(citations, h):
                return h
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