Application of progressive nucleation mechanism for the citation behavior of individual papers of different authors

Scientometrics

Volumn 92, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 643-655

  Sangwal, Keshra ^a  

^a LUBLIN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Citation behavior; Citations; Decay of citations; Individual papers; Progressive nucleation mechanism (PNM)

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865455856     PISSN: 01389130     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11192-011-0564-x     Document Type: Article

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