A method for the comparative analysis of concentration of author productivity, giving consideration to the effect of sample size dependency of statistical measures

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 54, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 521-528

  Yoshikane, Fuyuki ^a   Kageura, Kyo ^b   Tsuji, Keita ^b  

^a National Institution for Academic Degrees and University Evaluation Tokyo   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATICS   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL METHODS; PRODUCTIVITY;

AUTHOR PRODUCTIVITY DATA;

STATISTICAL METHODS;

EID: 0037394546     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.10239     Document Type: Article

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