A fresh approach to evaluating the academic ranking of world universities

Scientometrics

Volumn 87, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 587-596

  Jeremic, Veljko ^a   Bulajic, Milica ^a   Martic, Milan ^a   Radojicic, Zoran ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

Author keywords

ARWU; Classification; Ranking of universities; Statistical methods; The I distance method

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955482981     PISSN: 01389130     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11192-011-0361-6     Document Type: Article

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