A rationale for the hirsch-index rank-order distribution and a comparison with the impact factor rank-order distribution

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 60, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 2142-2144

  Egghe, Leo ^a  

^a HASSELT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTAL DATA; IMPACT FACTOR; INDEX DISTRIBUTION; LOG LOG SCALE; POWER LAW; S-SHAPED; STRAIGHT LINES;

EID: 70349330631     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: 15322890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.21121     Document Type: Article

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