Thats a unique idea.You should consider the following idea to enhance your idea so that it would impact uniquely: Hirsch's h-index cannot be used to compare academics that work in different disciplines or are at different career stages. Therefore, a metric that corrects for these differences would provide information that the h-index and its many current refinements cannot deliver. This article introduces such a metric, namely the hI,annual (or hIa for short). The hIa-index represents the average annual increase in the individual h-index. Using a sample of 146 academics working in five major disciplines and representing a wide variety of career lengths,  demonstrate that this metric attenuates h-index differences attributable to disciplinary background and career length. It is also easy to calculate with readily available data from all major bibliometric databases, such as Thomson Reuters b of Knowledge, Scopus and Google Scholar. Finally, as the metric represents the average number of single-author-equivalent "impactful" articles that an academic has published per year, it also allows an intuitive interpretation. Although just like any other metric, the hIa-index should never be used as the sole criterion to evaluate academics,  argue that it provides a more reliable comparison beten academics than currently available metrics.
['Anne-Wil Harzing', 'Satu Alakangas', 'David Adams']
I am writing a research paper on a idea hIa: an individual annual h-index to accommodate disciplinary and career length differences
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