A refinement of Egghe's increment studies

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Highlights：

• Results by Egghe on increment functions related to informetric indicators are refined.

• A new characterization of the h-index is provided.

• A non-recursive definition of these increment functions is given.

摘要

•Results by Egghe on increment functions related to informetric indicators are refined.•A new characterization of the h-index is provided.•A non-recursive definition of these increment functions is given.

论文关键词：Characterizations of informetric indicators,Increments,Forward differences

论文评审过程：Received 5 September 2013, Revised 26 November 2013, Accepted 4 December 2013, Available online 25 December 2013.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joi.2013.12.003