Universality of scholarly impact metrics

Journal of Informetrics

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 924-932

  Kaur, Jasleen ^a   Radicchi, Filippo ^a   Menczer, Filippo ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bibliometrics; Discipline bias; Impact metrics; Universality

Indexed keywords

EID: 84885933449     PISSN: 17511577     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.joi.2013.09.002     Document Type: Article

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