The f index: quantifying the impact of coterminal citations on scientists' ranking

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 60, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1051-1056

  Katsaros, Dimitrios ^a   Akritidis, Leonidas ^a   Bozanis, Panayiotis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COCITATION; COMPUTER SCIENTISTS; NEW INDICES; SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY; SCIENTOMETRIC;

EID: 65649093321     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: 15322890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.21040     Document Type: Article

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