A note on measuring overlap

Journal of Information Science

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 189-195

  Egghe, L ^a,b   Goovaerts, M ^a  

^a HASSELT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

MathSciNet; Measurement; Overlap; Zentralblatt MATH

Indexed keywords

DATABASE SYSTEMS; DIGITAL LIBRARIES; ESTIMATION; INDEXING (OF INFORMATION); MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MEASUREMENT THEORY;

JACCARD INDEX; MATHSCINET; OVERLAP; ZENTRALBLATT MATH;

INFORMATION MANAGEMENT;

EID: 33947184232     PISSN: 01655515     EISSN: 17416485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0165551506075325     Document Type: Article

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