Assigning publications to multiple subject categories for bibliometric analysis: An empirical case study based on percentiles

Journal of Documentation

Volumn 70, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 52-61

  Bornmann, Lutz ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE   (Germany)

Author keywords

InCites; Normalized citation impact; Percentile; Subject category

Indexed keywords

EID: 84890336132     PISSN: 00220418     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/JD-10-2012-0136     Document Type: Article

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