How does the normalization of data affect the ARWU ranking?

Scientometrics

Volumn 93, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 319-327

  Jovanovic, Milica ^a   Jeremic, Veljko ^a   Savic, Gordana ^a   Bulajic, Milica ^a   Martic, Milan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

Author keywords

ARWU; Classification; Normalization of data; Ranking of universities; Statistical methods; The I distance method

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867989193     PISSN: 01389130     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11192-012-0674-0     Document Type: Article

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