H Index

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.

Solution:

public class Solution {
    public int hIndex(int[] citations) {
        Arrays.sort(citations);
        int hIdx = 0;
        for(int i=citations.length-1; i>=0; i--){
            if(citations[i]>=citations.length-i) hIdx=citations.length-i;
            else break;
        }
        return hIdx;
    }
}