Manipulating citation indices in a social context

Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, AAMAS

Volumn , Issue , 2016, Pages 32-40

  Pavlou, Chrystalla ^a   Elkind, Edith ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

G index; H index; I10 index; Manipulation by merging

Indexed keywords

INDEXING (OF INFORMATION); MERGING; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

CITATION INDEX; G INDICES; H INDICES; I10-INDEX; PARAMETERIZED; PUBLICATION ACTIVITIES; SOCIAL CONTEXT;

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS;

EID: 85014167789     PISSN: 15488403     EISSN: 15582914     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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