The impact of extreme observations in citation distributions

Research Evaluation

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 174-182

  Li, Yunrong ^a   Ruiz Castillo, Javier ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD CARLOS III DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

citation indicators; citation inequality; confidence intervals; outliers

Indexed keywords

EID: 84898838489     PISSN: 09582029     EISSN: 14715449     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/reseval/rvu006     Document Type: Article

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