Daily Light Integral - read the wiki. Get the gist of it.
PPFD and hours of operation are required to understand how much light you are providing. One without the other is half the information necessary. Simply Reference a DLI table.
Important to note, no matter what you choose as your initial DLI target, you will most likley still have to observe and adjust from there. It'll get you close, but your local Temperature, RH and atmospheric CO2 will dictate how much DLI you can give without damaging the plant.
If too tight, needs less. If too lanky, needs more. Interveinal damage (initially and gets worse)) on leaves is another sign of too much.
Too much will stunt a plant and it can take a week or two to resume proper growth in extreme cases.
The plant and local variables dictate how much you can give... The suggested 35-40 dli stuff out there is just getting you into the ballpark for smaller required adjustments. If oyu calculate based on total power oflight, shoot for 40DLI. if using some free app to measure PPF at canopy and calculating DLI from that, shoot for 35. The latter takes some competency at measuing multiple locations and properly calculating an average over entire canopy. PPFD is not a single-point measurement.