The h index: playing the numbers game.

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• Publication year

  2006

• Venue

  Trends in Ecology & Evolution

• Publication date

  2006-08-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Psychology

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1016/J.TREE.2006.05.014PMID 16781007
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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