A comment to the papers by Opthof and Leydesdorff, Scientometrics, 88, 1011-1016, 2011 and Waltman et al., Scientometrics, 88, 1017-1022, 2011

Scientometrics

Volumn 90, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 737-743

  Prathap, Gangan ^a  

^a CSIR NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE COMMUNICATION AND INFORMATION RESOURCES   (India)

Author keywords

Bibliometrics; Energy; Exergy; h index; Indicators; Normalization; p index; Performance; Quality; Quantity; Quasity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84855565091     PISSN: 01389130     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11192-011-0500-0     Document Type: Letter

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