Formulae for the h-index: A lack of robustness in Lotkaian informetrics?

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 64, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1504-1514

  Burrell, Quentin L ^a,b  

^a University Centre   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

informetrics

Indexed keywords

CITATION DISTRIBUTION; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; H INDICES; INFORMETRICS; LOTKAIAN INFORMETRICS; MATHEMATICAL FRAMEWORKS; ORIGINAL MODEL;

INDEXING (OF INFORMATION);

PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

EID: 84878579278     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: 15322890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.22845     Document Type: Article

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