Review of the indirect citations paradigm: Theory and practice of the assessment of papers, authors and journals

Scientometrics

Volumn 99, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 261-288

  Fragkiadaki, Eleni ^a   Evangelidis, Georgios ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MACEDONIA   (Greece)

Author keywords

Bibliometric indicators; Indirect indicators; Recursive indicators

Indexed keywords

EID: 84898011508     PISSN: 01389130     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11192-013-1175-5     Document Type: Article

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