What does the g-index really measure?

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 62, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 2290-2293

  De Visscher, Alex ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

G INDICES; H INDICES; SQUARE ROOTS;

INDEXING (OF INFORMATION);

EID: 80054701702     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: 15322890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.21621     Document Type: Article

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