A case study of the modified Hirsch index hm accounting for multiple coauthors

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 60, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1274-1282

  Schreiber, Michael ^a  

^a CHEMNITZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COAUTHORSHIP; DATA SETS; MODIFIED INDICES; SCIENTIFIC RESEARCHES;

EID: 66149099266     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: 15322890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.21057     Document Type: Article

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