A principal component analysis of 39 scientific impact measures

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 2009, Pages

  Bollen, Johan ^a   Van de Sompel, Herbert ^a   Hagberg, Aric ^b   Chute, Ryan ^a  

^a LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DATA ANALYSIS; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MATHEMATICAL PHENOMENA; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PUBLICATION; SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE; SOCIAL NETWORK; ACCESS TO INFORMATION; BIBLIOMETRICS; FACTUAL DATABASE; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; JOURNAL IMPACT FACTOR; PUBLISHING; STANDARD;

ACCESS TO INFORMATION; BIBLIOMETRICS; DATABASES, FACTUAL; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; JOURNAL IMPACT FACTOR; PERIODICALS AS TOPIC; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PUBLISHING;

EID: 67650667736     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0006022     Document Type: Article

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