The Academic Journal Ranking Problem: A Fuzzy-Clustering Approach

Journal of Classification

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 7-20

  Benati, Stefano ^a   Stefani, Silvana ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Classification tree; Fuzzy clustering model; Harzing data base; Impact Factor; Journal quality problem

Indexed keywords

EID: 79957534313     PISSN: 01764268     EISSN: 14321343     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00357-011-9072-1     Document Type: Review

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