Scopus's source normalized impact per paper (SNIP) versus a journal impact factor based on fractional counting of citations

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 61, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 2365-2369

  Leydesdorff, Loet ^a   Opthof, Tobias ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMPACT FACTOR; JOURNAL RANKINGS; MOLECULAR CELLS; WHETHER DIFFERENCES;

INDEXING (OF INFORMATION);

EID: 77956487583     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: 15322890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.21371     Document Type: Article

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