A cluster analysis of scholar and journal bibliometric indicators

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 60, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1950-1964

  Franceschet, Massimo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UDINE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPOSITE INDICATORS; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; GLOBAL PERFORMANCE; PERFORMANCE INDICATORS; PERFORMANCE METRICS; QUANTITATIVE INDICATORS; RESEARCH PERFORMANCE;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS;

BENCHMARKING;

EID: 70349303442     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: 15322890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.21152     Document Type: Article

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