Factors affecting bibliometric indicators of scientific quality

Trames

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 199-214

  Allik, Jüri ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

Author keywords

Bibliometric analysis; Country self citation bias; High quality science; Impact factor; Mediocrity index; Percentage of highly cited papers

Indexed keywords

EID: 84883365435     PISSN: 14060922     EISSN: 17367514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3176/tr.2013.3.01     Document Type: Article

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