What do we know about the h index?

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 58, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 1381-1385

  Bornmann, Lutz ^a   Daniel, Hans Dieter ^a,b  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONVERGENT VALIDITY; LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENTS; SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY;

DATA STRUCTURES; DATABASE SYSTEMS; PROFESSIONAL ASPECTS;

INDEXING (OF INFORMATION);

EID: 34547332064     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: 15322890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.20609     Document Type: Article

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