The role of core documents in bibliometric network analysis and their relation with h-type indices

Scientometrics

Volumn 93, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 113-123

  Glänzel, Wolfgang ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Core documents; Emerging fields; h core; h index; Hybrid clustering; Network analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84866983715     PISSN: 01389130     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11192-012-0639-3     Document Type: Article

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