RQF Publication Quality Measures: Methodological Issues

ACIS 2007 Proceedings - 18th Australasian Conference on Information Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 478-486

  Lamp, John W ^a   Milton, Simon K ^b   Dawson, Linda ^c   Fisher, Julie ^c  

^a DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Publication analysis; Research evaluation; Research management; Rqf; Thomson isi

Indexed keywords

PUBLICATION ANALYSIS; RESEARCH EVALUATION; RESEARCH MANAGEMENT; RQF; THOMSON-ISI;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS; PUBLISHING; RESEARCH;

BENCHMARKING;

EID: 71749084962     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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