Hirsch index rankings require scaling and higher moment

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 60, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 2577-2586

  Bletsas, Aggelos ^a   Sahalos, John N ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVERAGE NUMBERS; CITATION DISTRIBUTION; ESTIMATION MODELS; EXPECTED VALUES; FIRST MOMENTS; HIGHER MOMENTS; MINIMUM INFORMATION; ONLINE REPOSITORIES; SCIENTIFIC FIELDS; STANDARD DEVIATION; WEB OF SCIENCE;

INDEXING (OF INFORMATION); PUBLISHING; RESEARCH; TECHNICAL WRITING;

PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

EID: 72449199458     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: 15322890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.21197     Document Type: Article

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