The excess-tail ratio: Correcting journal impact factors for citation distributions

Management (France)

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 697-706

  Baum, Joel A C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

E Index; Excess tail ratio; H core; H Index; H tail; If; Journal impact factor

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894037943     PISSN: 12864892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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