Remarks on the paper of A. de Visscher, "what does the g-index really measure?"

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 63, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 2118-2121

  Egghe, L ^a,b  

^a HASSELT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

informetrics

Indexed keywords

G INDICES; INFORMETRICS; SQUARE ROOTS;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

INDEXING (OF INFORMATION);

EID: 84866513718     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: 15322890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.22651     Document Type: Article

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