Simulating growth of the h-index

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 60, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 410-417

  Guns, Raf ^a   Rousseau, Ronald ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^b Katholieke Hogeschool Brugge Oostende   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LINEAR GROWTHS; S-SHAPED;

TIME SERIES;

EID: 60549107496     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: 15322890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.20973     Document Type: Article

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