Ranking and identifying influential scientists versus mass producers by the Perfectionism Index

Scientometrics

Volumn 103, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 1-31

  Sidiropoulos, Antonis ^a   Katsaros, Dimitrios ^b   Manolopoulos, Yannis ^c  

^a ALEXANDER TECHNOLOGICAL EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY   (Greece)

^c ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Bibliometrics; Citation analysis; h Index; Ranking

Indexed keywords

EID: 84919884011     PISSN: 01389130     EISSN: 15882861     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11192-014-1515-0     Document Type: Article

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