Bibliometric impact assessment with R and the CITAN package

Journal of Informetrics

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 678-692

  Gagolewski, Marek ^a,b  

^a SYSTEMS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Poland)

^b WARSAW UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Bibliometrics; Citation analysis; Data analysis software; Egghe's g index; Hirsch's h index; Quality control in science; SciVerse Scopus

Indexed keywords

EID: 80054034089     PISSN: 17511577     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.joi.2011.06.006     Document Type: Article

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