Influence of database mistakes on journal citation analysis: Remarks on the paper by Franceschini and Maisano, QREI (2010)

Quality and Reliability Engineering International

Volumn 27, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 969-976

  Franceschini, Fiorenzo ^a   Maisano, Domenico ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

Author keywords

bibliometric indicators; citation analysis; database mistake; false reference; Hirsch index; robust indicator

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION ANALYSIS;

BIBLIOMETRIC INDICATORS; CITATION ANALYSIS; FALSE REFERENCE; GOOGLE SCHOLAR; HIRSCH-INDEX; QUALITY ENGINEERING; SCIENTIFIC JOURNALS; SYNTHETIC ANALYSIS;

DATABASE SYSTEMS;

EID: 80052640614     PISSN: 07488017     EISSN: 10991638     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qre.1174     Document Type: Article

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