Critique of hirsch’s citation index: A combinatorial fermi problem

Notices of the American Mathematical Society

Volumn 61, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 1040-1050

  Yong, Alexander ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

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EID: 84907059422     PISSN: 00029920     EISSN: 10889477     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1090/noti1164     Document Type: Note

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