Profit (p)-Index: The Degree to Which Authors Profit from Co-Authors

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Aziz, Nasir Ahmad ^a   Rozing, Maarten Pieter ^b  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b Institute for Mental Health Care   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTHOR; AWARDS AND PRIZES; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNDING; H INDEX; HUMAN; MEASUREMENT; PARAMETERS; PROFIT INDEX; PUBLICATION; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SCIENTIST; WRITING;

ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTERS; ALGORITHMS; AUTHORSHIP; BIBLIOMETRICS; BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PUBLISHING; RESEARCH PERSONNEL;

EID: 84875709003     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0059814     Document Type: Article

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