Improving SCImago Journal & Country Rank (SJR) subject classification through reference analysis

Scientometrics

Volumn 89, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 741-758

  Gómez Núñez, Antonio J ^a,b   Vargas Quesada, Benjamín ^a,c   de Moya Anegón, Félix ^a,b   Glänzel, Wolfgang ^d  

^a CSIC   (Spain)

^b Institute of Public Goods and Policies   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Journal classification; Multidisciplinary databases; Reference analysis; SCImago Journal Country Rank; Subject categorization

Indexed keywords

EID: 80255140526     PISSN: 01389130     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11192-011-0485-8     Document Type: Review

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