Some comments on Egghe's derivation of the impact factor distribution

Journal of Informetrics

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 363-366

  Waltman, Ludo ^a,b   van Eck, Nees Jan ^a,b  

^a Erasmus University Rotterdam   (Netherlands)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Central limit theorem; Distribution; Impact factor; Rank order distribution

Indexed keywords

EID: 68649110885     PISSN: 17511577     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.joi.2009.05.004     Document Type: Article

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