Analyzing information systems researchers' productivity and impacts: A perspective on the H index

ACM Transactions on Management Information Systems

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

  Hu, Paul Jen Hwa ^a   Chen, Hsinchun ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Analysis of scholars' productivity and impacts; H index; Information systems

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF SCHOLARS' PRODUCTIVITY AND IMPACTS; DOCTORAL DEGREES; GOOGLE SCHOLAR; H INDICES; QUANTITATIVE ASSESSMENTS;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS; PRODUCTIVITY;

RESEARCH;

EID: 84860551808     PISSN: 2158656X     EISSN: 21586578     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1985347.1985348     Document Type: Review

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