274. H-Index

1. Description

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.”

2. Example

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

3. Note

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

4. Solutions

n = citations.size()
Time complexity: O(logn)
Space complexity: O(1)

class Solution {
public:
    int hIndex(const vector<int> &citations) {
        int hindex = 0;
        for (int left = 0, right = citations.size(); left <= right;) {
            int middle = (left + right) / 2;
            if (_is_match(citations, middle)) {
                left = middle + 1;
                hindex = middle;
            } else {
                right = middle - 1;
            }
        }

        return hindex;
    }

private:
    bool _is_match(const vector<int> &citations, const int hindex) {
        int count = 0;
        for (int cite : citations) {
            if (cite >= hindex) {
                ++count;
            }
        }

        return count >= hindex;
    }
};

Bucket Sort

n = citations.size()
Time complexity: O(n)
Space complexity: O(n)

class Solution {
public:
    int hIndex(const vector<int> &citations) {
        vector<int> cite_count(citations.size() + 1);
        for (unsigned long cite : citations) {
            ++cite_count[min(citations.size(), cite)];
        }

        for (int i = citations.size(), sum = 0; i > 0; --i) {
            sum += cite_count[i];

            if (sum >= i) {
                return i;
            }
        }

        return 0;
    }
};
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