Author name disambiguation: What difference does it make in author-based citation analysis?

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 63, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 1820-1833

  Strotmann, Andreas ^a   Zhao, Dangzhi ^b  

^a GESIS LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR THE SOCIAL SCIENCES   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

bibliometrics; citation analysis; co citation analysis

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMIC APPROACH; BIBLIOMETRICS; CITATION ANALYSIS; COCITATION; CURRENT TRENDS; NAME DISAMBIGUATION; STEM CELL RESEARCH;

INFORMATION ANALYSIS; MAPPING; STEM CELLS;

RESEARCH;

EID: 84865266936     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: 15322890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.22695     Document Type: Article

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