Towards an ideal method of measuring research performance: Some comments to the Opthof and Leydesdorff (2010) paper

Journal of Informetrics

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 441-443

  Bornmann, Lutz ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

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EID: 77956492109     PISSN: 17511577     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.joi.2010.04.004     Document Type: Letter

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