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Research publication has traditionally been accepted as an overall measure of academic success. In addition to the obvious and intangible benefits of contributing to the overall fund of human knowledge, research has demonstrated important and tangible benefits with research success. Bastian et al. noted, among academic orthopaedic surgeons, an increased Hirsch index (H-index) was associated with increased academic promotions and National Institutes of Health (NIH) awards in a dose-dependent manner [1]. Many metrics exist for measuring research relevance and performance. The number of citations has traditionally been used to gauge a single research study’s impact. The H-index, derived as the number of a researcher’s publications n with n citations, was introduced by Hirsch to assess an individual researcher’s overall impact [2]. With the rise of the internet and its associated analytics, readership …