Modifying h-index by allocating credit of multi-authored papers whose author names rank based on contribution

Journal of Informetrics

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 557-565

  Liu, Xuan Zhen ^a   Fang, Hui ^b  

^a NANJING MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Author rank; Citations; Co authorship; Contribution evaluation; H Index

Indexed keywords

EID: 84861668768     PISSN: 17511577     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.joi.2012.05.002     Document Type: Article

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