Handling self-citations using Google Scholar

Cybermetrics

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Couto, Francisco M ^a   Pesquita, Catia ^a   Grego, Tiago ^a   Veríssimo, Paulo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Bibliometrics; Citation Analysis; h Index; Self citation

Indexed keywords

EID: 67650320533     PISSN: None     EISSN: 11375019     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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