The detection of "hot regions" in the geography of science-A visualization approach by using density maps

Journal of Informetrics

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 547-553

  Bornmann, Lutz ^a   Waltman, Ludo ^b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Density map; Geographic information system; Geographical mapping; Highly cited paper; Spatial scientometrics

Indexed keywords

EID: 80054030638     PISSN: 17511577     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.joi.2011.04.006     Document Type: Article

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