The role of the h-index and the characteristic scores and scales in testing the tail properties of scientometric distributions

12th International Conference on Scientometrics and Informetrics, ISSI 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 120-130

  Glänzel, Wolfgang ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INDEXING (OF INFORMATION); INFORMATION SCIENCE;

EXTREME-VALUE STATISTICS; H INDICES; MATHEMATICAL RELATIONSHIP; SCIENTOMETRICS;

PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

EID: 71249116267     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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