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In academia there is a system of ranking someone's lifetime achievements called the h-index.
Your h-index score is simply expressed as "Number of papers you have published (x) that have each received x number of citations".
So a person with an h-index of 9 has published, in their lifetimes, 9 papers that have each been cited 9 times. A person with an h-index of 10 has published 10 papers, each of which has been cited 10 times.
So you can see that this doesn't scale linearly. If you have an h-index of 9 as described above, and you release a 10th paper that is cited 10 times, your h-index stays at 9. All 10 of your papers have to have been cited 10 times, just to move your h-index figure up 1 rank.
So what is a good score?
From wikipedia:
>Hirsch estimated that after 20 years a "successful scientist" would have an h-index of 20, an "outstanding scientist" would have an h-index of 40, and a "truly unique" individual would have an h-index of 60.
Dahlia Malkhi, the Chief Research Officer at Chainlink, has an h-index of 61.

Here she is talking about DECO:
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJqZQ2_VBzo