Universality in bibliometrics

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications

Volumn 391, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 2119-2128

  Da Silva, Roberto ^a   Kalil, Fahad ^a   De Oliveira, José Palazzo Moreira ^a   Martinez, Alexandre Souto ^b,c  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^c Instituto Nacional de Ciência e Tecnologia em Sistemas Complexos   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Bibliometrics; Generalized distributions; h index distribution; Scientometrics

Indexed keywords

DATA MINING; DISTRIBUTED DATABASE SYSTEMS; INDEXING (OF INFORMATION); PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

BIBLIOMETRICS; CITATION DISTRIBUTION; COMPUTER SCIENTISTS; GENERALIZED DISTRIBUTION; H-INDEX DISTRIBUTIONS; INSTITUTE OF SCIENTIFIC INFORMATIONS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION (PDF); SCIENTOMETRICS;

PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

EID: 84655163777     PISSN: 03784371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2011.11.021     Document Type: Article

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