Evaluating the performance of geographical locations within scientific networks using an aggregation-randomization-re-sampling approach (ARR)

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 63, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 2393-2404

  Hennemann, Stefan ^a  

^a JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

collaboration; geography; scientometrics

Indexed keywords

BETWEENNESS CENTRALITY; CENTRALITY MEASURES; COLLABORATION; ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY; EMPIRICAL DATA; GEOGRAPHICAL LOCATIONS; GEOGRAPHY; KNOWLEDGE CREATIONS; NETWORK REPRESENTATION; NULL MODEL; RELATIVE EFFICIENCY; RESAMPLING; ROBUST ESTIMATE; SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY; SCIENTIFIC INTERACTION; SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE PRODUCTION; SCIENTIFIC NETWORKS; SCIENTOMETRICS; SIGNIFICANCE TESTING; SOCIO-ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT;

AGGREGATES; EFFICIENCY; GEOGRAPHICAL REGIONS; RANDOM PROCESSES;

KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION;

EID: 84870551260     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: 15322890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.22739     Document Type: Article

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