LeetCode in Kotlin

275. H-Index II

Medium

Given an array of integers citations where citations[i] is the number of citations a researcher received for their ith paper and citations is sorted in an ascending order, 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.

You must write an algorithm that runs in logarithmic time.

Example 1:

Input: citations = [0,1,3,5,6]

Output: 3

Explanation: [0,1,3,5,6] means the researcher has 5 papers in total and each of them had received 0, 1, 3, 5, 6 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 = [1,2,100]

Output: 2

Constraints:

Solution

class Solution {
    fun hIndex(citations: IntArray): Int {
        var lo = 1
        var hi = 1000
        var ans = 0
        while (lo <= hi) {
            val mid = (lo + hi) / 2
            val p = check(mid, citations)
            if (citations.size - p >= mid) {
                ans = mid
                lo = mid + 1
            } else {
                hi = mid - 1
            }
        }
        return ans
    }

    private fun check(v: Int, arr: IntArray): Int {
        var lo = 0
        var hi = arr.size - 1
        while (lo <= hi) {
            val mid = (lo + hi) / 2
            if (arr[mid] < v) {
                lo = mid + 1
            } else {
                hi = mid - 1
            }
        }
        return lo
    }
}