Ranking scientific publications: The effect of nonlinearity

Scientific Reports

Volumn 4, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Yao, Liyang ^a   Wei, Tian ^a   Zeng, An ^a,b   Fan, Ying ^a   Di, Zengru ^a  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FRIBOURG   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NONLINEAR SYSTEM; PUBLICATION; VALIDATION PROCESS;

EID: 84919895101     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep06663     Document Type: Article

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