Implications of ambiguity for scientometric measurement

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 74-79

  Bookstein, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION ANALYSIS; MEASUREMENTS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; PROBABILITY;

AMBIGUITY; SCIENTOMETRIC MEASUREMENT;

INFORMATION SCIENCE;

EID: 0035120829     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1532-2890(2000)52:1<74::AID-ASI1052>3.0.CO;2-C     Document Type: Article

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