A new family of old Hirsch index variants

Journal of Informetrics

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 647-651

  Schreiber, Michael ^a  

^a CHEMNITZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Citations; G Index; Generalized mean; Hirsch index; Performance evaluation; Ranking

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956486922     PISSN: 17511577     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.joi.2010.05.002     Document Type: Article

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