The development of an AI journal ranking based on the revealed preference approach

Journal of Informetrics

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 447-459

  Serenko, Alexander ^a  

^a LAKEHEAD UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Academic journal; Artificial intelligence; Citation impact; G Index; Google scholar; H Index; Hc Index; Journal ranking

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956493320     PISSN: 17511577     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.joi.2010.04.001     Document Type: Article

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