Fairly sharing the credit of multi-authored papers and its application in the modification of h-index and g-index

Scientometrics

Volumn 91, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 37-49

  Liu, Xuan Zhen ^a   Fang, Hui ^b  

^a NANJING MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Citations; Co authorship; Contribution evaluation; g Index; h Index; Ranking

Indexed keywords

EID: 84857919958     PISSN: 01389130     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11192-011-0571-y     Document Type: Article

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