The discipline dependence of citation statistics

Scientometrics

Volumn 84, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 749-762

  Lillquist, Eva ^a   Green, Sheldon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Citations; Discipline; Field; H index; Statistics

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954955637     PISSN: 01389130     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11192-010-0162-3     Document Type: Article

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