Absolute and specific measures of research group excellence

Scientometrics

Volumn 95, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 115-127

  Mryglod, O ^a   Kenna, R ^b   Holovatch, Yu ^a   Berche, B ^c  

^a INSTITUTE FOR CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS   (Ukraine)

^b Faculty of Health and Life Sciences   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE LORRAINE   (France)

Author keywords

Higher education; Scientific evaluation; Scientometrics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84874799899     PISSN: 01389130     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11192-012-0874-7     Document Type: Article

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