# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jorge-e-hirsch
# Generated: 2026-08-31T22:47:12.713Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jorge-e-hirsch"
name: "Jorge E. Hirsch"
slug: "jorge-e-hirsch"
description: "Jorge Eduardo Hirsch is an Argentine American professor of physics at the University of California, San Diego. Hirsch received a PhD in physics from the University of Chicago in 1980 and completed his postdoctoral research at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1983. He is known for inventing the h-index in 2005, an index for quantifying a scientist's publication productivity and the basis of several scholar indices."
tagline: "Argentine American physics academic"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jorge_E._Hirsch.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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category:
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profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
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birthDate: "1953"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  momentum:             0.5931198102016608
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  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump