The influences of counting methods on university rankings based on paper count and citation count

Journal of Informetrics

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 611-621

  Lin, Chi Shiou ^a   Huang, Mu Hsuan ^a   Chen, Dar Zen ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Citation count; Counting method; Paper count; Research evaluation; University ranking

Indexed keywords

EDUCATION; RESEARCH; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

CITATION COUNT; COUNTING METHOD; MULTIPLE AUTHORS; RESEARCH EVALUATION; SCIENTIFIC COLLABORATION; SCIENTOMETRICS; UNIVERSITY RANKING;

PAPER;

DATA PROCESSING; INDEXING; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EID: 84876695709     PISSN: 17511577     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.joi.2013.03.007     Document Type: Article

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