Brief communication: Distribution of ranks of articles and citations in journals

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 61, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 419-423

  Campanario, Juan Miguel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALCALÁ   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE;

BETA FUNCTION; EMPIRICAL FUNCTIONS;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 76649119837     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: 15322890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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