Application of the distribution of citations among publications in scientometric evaluations

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 62, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1963-1978

  Vinkler, Péter ^a  

^a CHEMICAL RESEARCH CENTER   (Hungary)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CDS; CITATION DISTRIBUTION; CITED PAPERS; JOURNAL PAPER; LOWER LIMITS; SCIENTOMETRICS; SQUARE ROOTS; UPPER LIMITS; WEIGHTED NUMBER; SIZE DEPENDENT; SIZE INDEPENDENTS;

PUBLISHING;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 80052777989     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: 15322890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.21600     Document Type: Article

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