A comparison of two techniques for bibliometric mapping: Multidimensional scaling and VOS

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 61, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 2405-2416

  Van Eck, Nees Jan ^a,b   Waltman, Ludo ^a,b   Dekker, Rommert ^b   Van Den Berg, Jan ^c  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b Erasmus University Rotterdam   (Netherlands)

^c DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIBLIOMETRIC; COMMONLY USED; DATA SETS; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; MAPPING TECHNIQUES; MATHEMATICAL RELATION; MULTI-DIMENSIONAL SCALING;

MAPPING;

MATHEMATICAL TECHNIQUES;

EID: 78449280370     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: 15322890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.21421     Document Type: Article

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