Accounting for the uncertainty in the evaluation of percentile ranks

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 63, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 2349-2350

  Leydesdorff, Loet ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

evaluation; statistics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84868091640     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: 15322890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.22714     Document Type: Letter

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