Harmonic publication and citation counting: Sharing authorship credit equitably - not equally, geometrically or arithmetically

Scientometrics

Volumn 84, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 785-793

  Hagen, Nils T ^a  

^a NORD UNIVERSITY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Bibliometric counting; Bibliometry; Counting bias; Validation

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954958227     PISSN: 01389130     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11192-009-0129-4     Document Type: Article

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