On using the Shanghai ranking to assess the research performance of university systems

Scientometrics

Volumn 86, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 77-92

  Docampo, Domingo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIGO   (Spain)

Author keywords

Clustering; PCA; Ranking; Reliability; Scale; Shanghai; University system

Indexed keywords

EID: 78649934108     PISSN: 01389130     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11192-010-0280-y     Document Type: Article

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