A priori vs. a posteriori normalisation of citation indicators. The case of journal ranking

Scientometrics

Volumn 87, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 415-424

  Glänzel, Wolfgang ^a,b   Schubert, András ^b   Thijs, Bart ^a   Debackere, Koenraad ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Characteristic scores and scales; Citation measures; Journal impact measures; Journal ranking; Normalisation

Indexed keywords

EID: 79953289316     PISSN: 01389130     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11192-011-0345-6     Document Type: Article

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