Calculating the h-index and other bibliometric and scientometric indicators from Google Scholar with the Publish or Perish software

Online Information Review

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1189-1200

  Jacsó, Péter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

Databases; Internet; Publishing; Systems software

Indexed keywords

DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH; GOOGLE SCHOLAR; IDENTIFICATION AND REMOVAL; INTERNET PUBLISHING; SCIENTOMETRICS; WEB OF SCIENCE;

DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; INDEXING (OF INFORMATION); INTERNET; METADATA; PUBLISHING;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 73149091408     PISSN: 14684527     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/14684520911011070     Document Type: Article

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