The influence of self-citation corrections and the fractionalised counting of multi-authored manuscripts on the Hirsch index

Annalen der Physik (Leipzig)

Volumn 18, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 607-621

  Schreiber, Michael ^a  

^a CHEMNITZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Citation analysis; Coauthors; H index; Hirsch index; Self citations

Indexed keywords

CITATION ANALYSIS; COAUTHORS; H INDEX; HIRSCH INDEX; SELF-CITATIONS;

TECHNICAL WRITING;

EID: 70350339330     PISSN: 00033804     EISSN: 15213889     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/andp.200910360     Document Type: Article

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