Ranking marketing journals using the Google Scholar-based hg-index

Journal of Informetrics

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 107-117

  Moussa, Salim ^a,b   Touzani, Mourad ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TUNIS   (Tunisia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GAFSA   (Tunisia)

Author keywords

g index; Google Scholar; h index; hg index; Marketing journals; Ranking

Indexed keywords

EID: 71249157658     PISSN: 17511577     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.joi.2009.10.001     Document Type: Article

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