How expensive is Big Science? Consequences of using simple publication counts in performance assessment of large scientific facilities

Scientometrics

Volumn 100, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 483-496

  Hallonsten, Olof ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Big Science; Performance assessment; Productivity; Publication counts; Quality assessment

Indexed keywords

EID: 84904153051     PISSN: 01389130     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11192-014-1249-z     Document Type: Article

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