WL-index: Leveraging citation mention number to quantify an individual's scientific impact

Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 65, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 2509-2517

  Wan, Xiaojun ^a   Liu, Fang ^a  

^a Peking University   (China)

Author keywords

author productivity; bibliometrics; citation analysis

Indexed keywords

INDEXING (OF INFORMATION);

BIBLIOMETRIC INDICES; BIBLIOMETRICS; CITATION ANALYSIS; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; H INDICES; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; PROGRAM COMMITTEE;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 84938538315     PISSN: 23301635     EISSN: 23301643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.23151     Document Type: Article

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