The Hirsch family of Bibliometric indices as an improved measure of is academic journal impact

14th Americas Conference on Information Systems, AMCIS 2008

Volumn 4, Issue , 2008, Pages 2269-2278

  Cuellar, Michael J ^a   Takeda, Hiro ^a   Truex, Duane P ^a  

^a GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Citation analysis; Contemporary hirsch index; H index; Hc index; Hirsch index; Journal ranking

Indexed keywords

CITATION ANALYSIS; CONTEMPORARY HIRSCH INDEX; H INDICES; HC INDEX; HIRSCH INDEX; JOURNAL RANKINGS;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS; PUBLISHING;

INDEXING (OF INFORMATION);

EID: 84870314558     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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