A New Family of Cumulative Indexes for Measuring Scientific Performance

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2012, Pages

  Kozak, Marcin ^a   Bornmann, Lutz ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT   (Poland)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIBLIOMETRICS; CALCULATION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CUMULATIVE INDEX; DATA PROCESSING; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT SYSTEM; PRODUCTIVITY; SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE; SCIENTIST;

BIBLIOMETRICS; HUMANS; PUBLICATIONS; REFERENCE STANDARDS; RESEARCH;

EID: 84868293009     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0047679     Document Type: Article

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