Beyond rankings: The role of large research universities in the global scientific communication system

Proceedings of ISSI 2007 - 11th International Conference of the International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 761-765

  Visser, Martijn S ^a   Calero Medina, Clara M ^a   Moed, Henk F ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Citation impact; Citation networks; Concentrated vs. distributed models; National academic systems; Rankings; World universities

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; INFORMATION SCIENCE; RESEARCH; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

ACADEMIC SYSTEM; CITATION IMPACT; CITATION NETWORKS; DISTRIBUTED MODELS; RANKINGS; WORLD UNIVERSITIES;

EDUCATION;

EID: 55049116847     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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