Given an array of citations (each citation is a non-negative integer) of a researcher, write a function to compute the researcher's h-index.
According to the definition of h-index on Wikipedia: "A scientist has index h if h of his/her N papers have at least h citations each, and the other N − h papers have no more than h citations each."
For example, given citations = [3, 0, 6, 1, 5], which 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, his h-index is 3.
Note: If there are several possible values for h, the maximum one is taken as the h-index.
Hint:
An easy approach is to sort the array first. What are the possible values of h-index? A faster approach is to use extra space.
public class Solution {
public int hIndex(int[] citations) {
if(citations == null || citations.length == 0) return 0;
int[] count = new int[citations.length + 1];
for(int cite: citations) {
if(cite > citations.length) {
count[citations.length]++;
} else {
count[cite]++;
}
}
int accum = 0;
for(int i = count.length - 1; i >= 0; i--) {
accum += count[i];
if(accum >= i) return i;
}
return 0;
}
}