The slavery of the h-index—measuring the unmeasurable

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn 10, Issue NOV2016, 2016, Pages

  Kreiner, Grzegorz ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PHARMACOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Bibliometrics; Citations; H index; Nobel prize; Research evaluation

Indexed keywords

ACHIEVEMENT; ARTICLE; AUTHOR; AWARDS AND PRIZES; CAREER; CITATION ANALYSIS; H INDEX; MEASUREMENT; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PUBLICATION; SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE; WRITING;

EID: 84995538917     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16625161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2016.00556     Document Type: Article

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