The skewness of scientific productivity

Journal of Informetrics

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 917-934

  Ruiz Castillo, Javier ^a   Costas, Rodrigo ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD CARLOS III DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Co authorship; Disambiguation algorithm; Individual scientist's productivity distributions; Skewness of science

Indexed keywords

HIGHER ORDER STATISTICS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

COAUTHORSHIP; COEFFICIENT OF VARIATION; INDIVIDUAL PRODUCTIVITY; LARGE DATASET; PRODUCTIVITY DISTRIBUTION; SCIENTIFIC FIELDS; SKEWNESS OF SCIENCE; TWO WAYS;

PRODUCTIVITY;

EID: 84908666543     PISSN: 17511577     EISSN: 18755879     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.joi.2014.09.006     Document Type: Article

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