Citations and the h index of soil researchers and journals in the web of science, scopus, and google scholar

PeerJ

Volumn 2013, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Minasny, Budiman ^a   Hartemink, Alfred E ^b   Mcbratney, Alex ^a   Jang, Ho Jun ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Bibliometrics; Citations; H index; Impact factor; Soil science; Transfer functions

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; CITATION ANALYSIS; DATA BASE; JOURNAL IMPACT FACTOR; PUBLICATION; RESEARCH; SCIENTIST; SOIL ANALYSIS; SOIL AND SOIL RELATED PHENOMENA;

EID: 84888368311     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21678359     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7717/peerj.183     Document Type: Article

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