A preliminary investigation on diffusion through a layered system

Journal of Informetrics

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 177-191

  Rousseau, Ronald ^a,b,c   Liu, Yuxian ^d   Ye, Fred Y ^e  

^a Katholieke Hogeschool Brugge Oostende   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^d TONGJI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Counting methods; Diffusion; Gini evenness index; Layered systems

Indexed keywords

EID: 84862815007     PISSN: 17511577     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.joi.2012.01.005     Document Type: Article

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