Some modifications to the SNIP journal impact indicator

Journal of Informetrics

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 272-285

  Waltman, Ludo ^a   van Eck, Nees Jan ^a   van Leeuwen, Thed N ^a   Visser, Martijn S ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Journal impact; Journal indicator; Scopus; SNIP; Source normalization

Indexed keywords

FIELD CLASSIFICATION; IMPACT INDICATORS; JOURNAL IMPACT; SCIENTIFIC FIELDS; SCIENTIFIC JOURNALS; SCOPUS; SNIP; SOURCE NORMALIZATION;

EID: 84872186449     PISSN: 17511577     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.joi.2012.11.011     Document Type: Article

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