A geometric model for the analysis of citation distributions

International Journal of Mathematical Models and Methods in Applied Sciences

Volumn 9, Issue , 2015, Pages 315-319

  Bertoli Barsotti, Lucio ^a   Lando, Tommaso ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGAMO   (Italy)

^b VSB TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF OSTRAVA   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Citation analysis; Geometric distribution; Kullback Leibler estimation; Size frequency data; Trimmed estimator

Indexed keywords

EID: 84938333132     PISSN: 19980140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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