TOP-curves

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 58, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 777-785

  Egghe, Leo ^a,b   Rousseau, Ronald ^a,b,c   Rousseau, Sandra ^d  

^a HASSELT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^c Katholieke Hogeschool Brugge Oostende   (Belgium)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; DATABASE SYSTEMS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY;

DATA ARRAYS; EMPIRICAL RANKING; INFORMETRICS; LORENZ DOMINANCE ORDER;

INFORMATION SCIENCE;

EID: 34247175853     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: 15322890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.20539     Document Type: Article

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