A forward diversity index

Scientometrics

Volumn 90, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 407-427

  Carley, Stephen ^a   Porter, Alan L ^a,b  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Search Technology Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Citation patterns; Diffusion score; Integration score; Knowledge diffusion; Self citations; Subject category behavior

Indexed keywords

EID: 84855526749     PISSN: 01389130     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11192-011-0528-1     Document Type: Article

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