Rivals for the crown: Reply to Opthof and Leydesdorff

Journal of Informetrics

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 431-435

  van Raan, Anthony F J ^a   van Leeuwen, Thed N ^a   Visser, Martijn S ^a   van Eck, Nees Jan ^a   Waltman, Ludo ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Bibliometric indicator; Crown indicator; Field normalization; Research performance assessment

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956468705     PISSN: 17511577     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.joi.2010.03.008     Document Type: Article

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