The influence of transformations on the h-index and the g-index

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 59, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1304-1312

  Egghe, L ^a,b  

^a HASSELT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PENSION PLANS;

APPLIED (CO); ARBITRARY INFORMATION; FREQUENCY FUNCTIONS; GENERAL (CO); H INDEX; POWER FUNCTIONS; PROPERTY (S);

COMPENSATION (PERSONNEL);

EID: 45849123459     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: 15322890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.20823     Document Type: Article

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