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In this paper some new fields of application of Hirsch-related statistics are presented. Furthermore, so far unrevealed properties of the h-index are analysed in the context of rank-frequency and extreme-value statistics.
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Glänzel, W. On some new bibliometric applications of statistics related to the h-index. Scientometrics 77, 187–196 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-007-1989-0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-007-1989-0