Benchmarking research performance at the university level with information theoretic measures

Scientometrics

Volumn 95, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 435-452

  Garcia J A ^a   Rodriguez Sánchez, Rosa ^a   Fdez Valdivia, J ^a   Robinson García, Nicolas ^a   Torres Salinas, Daniel ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAVARRA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Benchmarking research output; Impact factor histogram; Information conservation constraint; Information gain; Information theoretic measure; Institution institution similarity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84874799249     PISSN: 01389130     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11192-012-0854-y     Document Type: Article

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