Redundancies in H Index Variants and the Proposal of the Number of Top-Cited Papers as an Attractive Indicator

Measurement

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 149-153

  Bornmann, Lutz ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE   (Germany)

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EID: 84866865928     PISSN: 15366367     EISSN: 15366359     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15366367.2012.716255     Document Type: Note

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