Developing an H-index for OSS developers

IEEE International Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 251-254

  Capiluppi, Andrea ^a   Serebrenik, Alexander ^b   Youssef, Ahmmad ^c  

^a BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EAST LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAREER ADVANCEMENT; COMMUNITY STRUCTURES; H INDICES; OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE; OSS SYSTEMS; PUBLIC DATA; SOFTWARE QUALITY;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

INDEXING (OF INFORMATION);

EID: 84865129246     PISSN: 21601852     EISSN: 21601860     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/MSR.2012.6224288     Document Type: Conference Paper

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