Do we need the g-index?

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 64, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 2396-2399

  Schreiber, Michael ^a  

^a CHEMNITZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

G INDICES; SMALL SAMPLES; SQUARE ROOTS;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

INDEXING (OF INFORMATION);

EID: 84885643581     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: 15322890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.22933     Document Type: Article

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