Relativity of citation performance and excellence measures: From cross-field to cross-scale effects of field-normalisation

Scientometrics

Volumn 63, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 373-401

  Zitt, Michel ^a,b   Ramanana Rahary, Suzy ^b   Bassecoulard, Elise ^a  

^a LERECO   (France)

^b Observ des Sci et des Techniques   (France)

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EID: 28844482349     PISSN: 01389130     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11192-005-0218-y     Document Type: Article

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