Too much noise in the Times Higher Education rankings

Scientometrics

Volumn 85, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 295-299

  Bookstein, Fred L ^a,b   Seidler, Horst ^a   Fieder, Martin ^a   Winckler, Georg ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Rankings; Statistical noise; Times Higher Education ranking

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955846577     PISSN: 01389130     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11192-010-0189-5     Document Type: Article

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