Counting publications and citations: Is more always better?

Journal of Informetrics

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 635-641

  Waltman, Ludo ^a   Van Eck, Nees Jan ^a   Wouters, Paul ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Bibliometric index; Citation; Highly cited publication; Modeling; Scientific impact

Indexed keywords

MODELS;

BIBLIOMETRIC INDICES; CITATION; HIGHLY CITED PUBLICATION; SCIENTIFIC IMPACT;

PUBLISHING;

EID: 84877153092     PISSN: 17511577     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.joi.2013.04.001     Document Type: Article

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