Revisiting the g-index: The average number of citations in the g-core

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 169-174

  Schreiber, Michael ^a  

^a CHEMNITZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVERAGE NUMBERS; ONE-NUMBER;

DATA VISUALIZATION;

TECHNICAL WRITING;

EID: 72849144010     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: 15322890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.21218     Document Type: Article

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