Comparison of different mathematical functions for the analysis of citation distribution of papers of individual authors

Journal of Informetrics

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 36-49

  Sangwal, Keshra ^a  

^a LUBLIN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Adsorption isotherms; Citation analysis; Citation rank order distribution; Rank frequency functions

Indexed keywords

ADSORPTION ISOTHERMS; PAPER;

CITATION ANALYSIS; CITATION DISTRIBUTION; CITATION RANK-ORDER DISTRIBUTION; LANGMUIR CONSTANT; LOGARITHMIC FUNCTIONS; MATHEMATICAL FUNCTIONS; POWER-LAW; STRETCHED EXPONENTIAL;

FUNCTIONS;

EID: 84867484678     PISSN: 17511577     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.joi.2012.09.002     Document Type: Article

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