No-bells for ambiguous lists of ranked Nobelists as science indicators of national merit in physics, chemistry and medicine, 1901-2001

Scientometrics

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 3-28

  Braun, Tibor ^a   Szabadi Peresztegi, Zsuzsa ^a   Kovács Németh, Éva ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

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EID: 3142688282     PISSN: 01389130     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1021998006078     Document Type: Review

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