The age-dependent h-type ar2-index: basic properties and a case study

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 59, Issue 14, 2008, Pages 2305-2311

  Rousseau, Ronald ^a   Jin, Bihui ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASIC PROPERTIES; CASE STUDIES; MATHEMATICAL PROPERTIES;

ARGON;

EID: 57049169847     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: 15322890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.20928     Document Type: Article

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