Hirsch-type characteristics of the tail of distributions. The generalised h-index

Journal of Informetrics

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 118-123

  Glänzel, Wolfgang ^a,b   Schubert, András ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

Author keywords

g Index; h Index; Ordered statistics

Indexed keywords

EID: 71249138429     PISSN: 17511577     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.joi.2009.10.002     Document Type: Article

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