Do universities or research institutions with a specific subject profile have an advantage or a disadvantage in institutional rankings?: A Latent Class Analysis with Data from the SCImago Ranking

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 64, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 2310-2316

  Bornmann, Lutz ^a   De Moya Anegõn, Felix ^b   Mutz, Rüdiger ^c  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^b CSIC   (Spain)

^c Social Psychology and Research on Higher Education   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

bibliometrics

Indexed keywords

BIBLIOMETRICS; LATENT CLASS ANALYSIS; PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENTS; RESEARCH INSTITUTIONS; SCIENTIFIC PERFORMANCE;

RESEARCH;

SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

EID: 84885611735     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: 15322890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.22923     Document Type: Article

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