Reproducibility of the Shanghai academic ranking of world universities results

Scientometrics

Volumn 94, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 567-587

  Docampo, Domingo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIGO   (Spain)

Author keywords

ARWU; Ranking; Reproducibility; Results; Shanghai

Indexed keywords

EID: 84872499010     PISSN: 01389130     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11192-012-0801-y     Document Type: Article

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