On the robustness of the h-index

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 58, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 1547-1550

  Vanclay, Jerome K ^a  

^a SOUTHERN CROSS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT EXCHANGE; ERROR ANALYSIS; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS);

CITATIONS-RANK DISTRIBUTIONS; H-INDEX; TYPOGRAPHIC ERRORS;

ELECTRONIC PUBLISHING;

EID: 34547595852     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: 15322890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.20616     Document Type: Review

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