A Measure of Total Research Impact Independent of Time and Discipline

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2012, Pages

  Pepe, Alberto ^a   Kurtz, Michael J ^b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SMITHSONIAN ASTROPHYSICAL OBSERVATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; AUTHOR; CAREER; CITATION ANALYSIS; COMPETENCE; HISTORY; INFORMATION SYSTEM; LITERATURE; PUBLICATION; REFERENCE DATABASE; RESEARCH; TIME;

ASTRONOMY; DATABASES, BIBLIOGRAPHIC; EFFICIENCY; HUMANS; JOURNAL IMPACT FACTOR; RESEARCH;

EID: 84868703838     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0046428     Document Type: Article

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