Progressive nucleation mechanism for the growth behavior of items and its application to cumulative papers and citations of individual authors

Scientometrics

Volumn 92, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 575-591

  Sangwal, Keshra ^a  

^a LUBLIN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Cumulative citations; Cumulative papers; Growth behavior of items; Individual authors; Progressive nucleation mechanism (PNM)

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865472532     PISSN: 01389130     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11192-011-0610-8     Document Type: Article

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