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H-Index

Problem statement

Given an array of integers citations where citations[i] is the number of citations a researcher received for their ith paper, return compute the researcher's h-index.

According to the definition of h-index on Wikipedia: A scientist has an index h if h of their n papers have at least h citations each, and the other n − h papers have no more than h citations each.

If there are several possible values for h, the maximum one is taken as the h-index.

Example 1:

Input: citations = [3,0,6,1,5]Output: 3Explanation: [3,0,6,1,5] 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, their h-index is 3.

Example 2:

Input: citations = [1,3,1]Output: 1

Constraints:

  • n == citations.length
  • 1 <= n <= 5000
  • 0 <= citations[i] <= 1000

My solution

/**
* @param {number[]} citations
* @return {number}
*/
var hIndex = function(citations) {
citations.sort((a, b) => b - a)

let hIndex = 0;

for (let i = 0; i < citations.length; i++) {
let citation = citations[i];

if (citation >= i + 1) {
hIndex = i + 1;
}
}

return hIndex;
};

// var hIndex = function(citations) {
// let len = citations.length;
// let hIndex = 0;
// let dp = Array.from({
// length: len + 1
// }, () => 0)

// for (const n of citations) {
// if (n >= len) {
// dp[len]++
// } else {
// dp[n]++
// }
// }

// for (let i = 0; i <= dp.length; i++) {
// if (!dp[i]) {
// continue;
// }

// hIndex = Math.max(hIndex, Math.min(len, i))
// len -= dp[i]
// }

// return hIndex;
// };