Study of different h-indices for groups of authors

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 59, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1276-1281

  Egghe, L ^a,b   Ravichandra Rao, I K ^a,c  

^a HASSELT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^c INDIAN STATISTICAL INSTITUTE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

H INDEX;

EID: 45849124178     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: 15322890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.20809     Document Type: Article

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