Estimating research productivity from a zero-truncated distribution

Proceedings of ISSI 2011 - 13th Conference of the International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics

Volumn 2, Issue , 2011, Pages 747-755

  Koski, Timo ^a   Sandström, Erik ^a   Sandström, Ulf ^a  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

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