Probing the h-core: An investigation of the tail-core ratio for rank distributions

Scientometrics

Volumn 84, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 431-439

  Ye, Fred Y ^a,b   Rousseau, Ronald ^c,d  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL INFORMATION OF CHINA   (China)

^c Katholieke Hogeschool Brugge Oostende   (Belgium)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

h Core; h Index; h Tail; k Index; Tail core ratio; v Index

Indexed keywords

EID: 77953697049     PISSN: 01389130     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11192-009-0099-6     Document Type: Article

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