A vector for measuring obsolescence of scientific articles

Scientometrics

Volumn 107, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 745-757

  Sun, Jianjun ^a   Min, Chao ^a   Li, Jiang ^b  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Citation curves; Flashes in the pan; Gini coefficient; Obsolescence; Sleeping beauties; Vector

Indexed keywords

EID: 84958250313     PISSN: 01389130     EISSN: 15882861     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11192-016-1884-7     Document Type: Article

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