Do we need the h index and its variants in addition to standard bibliometric measures?

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 60, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1286-1289

  Bornmann, Lutz ^a   Mutz, Rüdiger ^a   Daniel, Hans Dieter ^a,b  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FACTOR ANALYSIS; INTERCORRELATION; PERFORMANCE DIMENSIONS; TWO-DIMENSION;

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EID: 66149135609     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: 15322890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.21016     Document Type: Article

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