Severe language effect in university rankings: Particularly Germany and France are wronged in citation-based rankings

Scientometrics

Volumn 88, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 495-498

  van Raan, Anthony F J ^a   van Leeuwen, Thed N ^a   Visser, Martijn S ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Bibliometric analysis; Language of publication; University rankings

Indexed keywords

EID: 79959640609     PISSN: 01389130     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11192-011-0382-1     Document Type: Article

References (2)

1. Leiden Ranking (2010). http://www. socialsciences. leiden. edu/cwts/products-services/leiden-ranking-2010-cwts. html.
2. van Leeuwen, T. N., Moed, H. F., Tijssen, R. J. W., Visser, M. S., & van Raan, A. F. J. (2001). Language biases in the coverage of the science citation index and its consequences for international comparisons of national research performance. Scientometrics, 51(1), 335-346.