The order in the lists of authors in multi-author papers revisited

Journal of Informetrics

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 639-644

  Kosmulski, Marek ^a  

^a LUBLIN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Alphabetical order; Citation analysis; Multi author papers

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864043493     PISSN: 17511577     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.joi.2012.06.006     Document Type: Article

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