High-end performance or outlier? Evaluating the tail of scientometric distributions

Scientometrics

Volumn 97, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 13-23

  Glänzel, Wolfgang ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Characteristic scores and scales; Extreme values; QQ plot; Scientometric distributions

Indexed keywords

EID: 84884145351     PISSN: 01389130     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11192-013-1022-8     Document Type: Article

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