The h-index for countries in Web of Science and Scopus

Online Information Review

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 831-837

  Jacsó, Péter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

Databases; Publishing; South America

Indexed keywords

ARGENTINA; CITATION INDEX; DATABASES; DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH; ELSEVIER; INDEX VALUES; RANK CORRELATION; REUTERS; SCIENCE CITATION INDEX; SCOPUS DATABASE; SOCIAL SCIENCE CITATION INDICES; SOUTH AMERICA; THOMSON; WEB OF SCIENCE;

TECHNICAL WRITING;

DATABASE SYSTEMS;

EID: 70249103458     PISSN: 14684527     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/14684520910985756     Document Type: Article

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