Evaluating a department's research: Testing the Leiden methodology in business and management

Information Processing and Management

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 587-595

  Mingers, John ^a   Lipitakis, Evangelia A E C G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Business and management; Citations; Crown indicator; Leiden methodology; Research quality assessment

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC DEPARTMENT; BUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT; BUSINESS SCHOOLS; CITATIONS; DATA SETS; HARD SCIENCE; LEIDEN METHODOLOGY; QUANTITATIVE METHOD; RESEARCH GROUPS; RESEARCH QUALITY; RESEARCH STUDIES; WEB OF SCIENCE;

DATA PROCESSING; MEDIA STREAMING;

RESEARCH;

EID: 84873044872     PISSN: 03064573     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ipm.2012.11.002     Document Type: Article

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