Characteristic scores and scales. A bibliometric analysis of subject characteristics based on long-term citation observation

Journal of Informetrics

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 92-102

  Glänzel, Wolfgang ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Citation analysis; Disciplinary citation impact; Extreme values; Long term citation impact; Pareto distribution; Truncated moments

Indexed keywords

EID: 33846318475     PISSN: 17511577     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.joi.2006.10.001     Document Type: Article

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