Altmetrics for country-level research assessment

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 8839, Issue , 2014, Pages 59-64

  Alhoori, Hamed ^a   Furuta, Richard ^a   Tabet, Myrna ^b   Samaka, Mohammed ^b   Fox, Edward A ^c  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b QATAR UNIVERSITY   (Qatar)

^c Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Altmetrics; GDP; H index; R D; Research evaluation

Indexed keywords

INDEXING (OF INFORMATION);

ALTMETRICS; BROADER IMPACTS; H INDICES; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT; RESEARCH EVALUATION; RESEARCH EXPERIENCE; RESEARCH FUNDING; SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATION;

DIGITAL LIBRARIES;

EID: 84909638339     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-12823-8_7     Document Type: Article

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