Discussing some basic critique on Journal Impact Factors: Revision of earlier comments

Scientometrics

Volumn 92, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 443-455

  van Leeuwen, Thed ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Document types; Journal Impact Factor; Journal Subject Categories; Length of citation windows

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864282765     PISSN: 01389130     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11192-012-0677-x     Document Type: Article

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