Evaluating the productivity of researchers and their communities: The RP-Index and the CP-Index

International Journal of Computer Science and Applications

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 104-118

  Altmann, Jörn ^a   Abbasi, Alireza ^a,b   Hwang, Junseok ^a  

^a Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^b NATIONAL IRANIAN OIL COMPANY   (Iran)

Author keywords

and knowledge transfer; Citation indices; Empirical data analysis; g Index; h Index; Knowledge creation; Metrics; Performance evaluation of researchers and groups; Research productivity evaluation

Indexed keywords

EID: 67650553048     PISSN: 09729038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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