The influence of the broadness of a query of a topic on its h-index: Models and examples of the h-index of N-grams

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 59, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1688-1693

  Egghe, Leo ^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; N-GRAMS; QUERY FORMULATIONS; RANDOM SETS; RETRIEVED DOCUMENTS;

SET THEORY;

EID: 48849103945     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: 15322890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.20843     Document Type: Article

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