Performance and over-ranking measures on citation profiles

12th International Conference on Scientometrics and Informetrics, ISSI 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 40-51

  Zitt, Michel ^a,b   Lahatte, Agénor ^b  

^a LERECO   (France)

^b Observatoire des Sciences et des Techniques (OST)   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPETITION;

ACTIVITY INDEX; CITATION SCORE; MARKET SHARE; NON-PARAMETRIC TECHNIQUES; PERFORMANCE INDICATORS; RELATIVE IMPACT;

INFORMATION SCIENCE;

EID: 84901992314     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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