Certainty equivalent citation: Generalized classes of citation indexes

Scientometrics

Volumn 94, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 263-271

  Abatemarco, Antonio ^a   Dell'Anno, Roberto ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALERNO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FOGGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Citation index; h Index; Inequality measurement; w Index

Indexed keywords

EID: 84871926745     PISSN: 01389130     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11192-012-0758-x     Document Type: Article

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