Give me a hi-5! An additional version of the h-index

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry

Volumn 47, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 1119-1123

  Hunt, Glenn E ^a,b   McGregor, Iain S ^c   Malhi, Gin S ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b ANZAC Research Institute   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^d ROYAL NORTH SHORE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bibliometrics; citations; h index

Indexed keywords

HUMAN; JOURNAL IMPACT FACTOR; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NOTE; PUBLICATION;

BIBLIOMETRICS; CITATIONS; H-INDEX;

HUMANS; PERIODICALS AS TOPIC; PUBLISHING;

EID: 84889018300     PISSN: 00048674     EISSN: 14401614     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0004867413513506     Document Type: Note

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