Bibliographic coupling and hierarchical clustering for the validation and improvement of subjectclassification schemes

Proceedings of ISSI 2013 - 14th International Society of Scientometrics and Informetrics Conference

Volumn 1, Issue , 2013, Pages 237-250

  Thijs, Bart ^a   Zhang, Lin ^b   Glänzel, Wolfgang ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b NORTH CHINA UNIVERSITY OF WATER RESOURCES AND ELECTRIC POWER   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIBLIOGRAPHIC COUPLINGS; CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM; FIELD CLASSIFICATION; HIER-ARCHICAL CLUSTERING; HIERARCHICAL LEVEL; SCIENCE INDICATORS; SIMILARITY MATRIX; WEB OF SCIENCE;

BIBLIOGRAPHIES;

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION);

EID: 84896882276     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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