Contributory inequality alters assessment of academic output gap between comparable countries

Journal of Informetrics

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 629-641

  Hagen, Nils T ^a  

^a NORD UNIVERSITY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Bibliometric bias; Coauthor credit; Harmonic formula; Inequality; Publication metrics

Indexed keywords

BIBLIOMETRIC; COAUTHOR CREDIT; HARMONIC FORMULA; INEQUALITY; PUBLICATION METRICS;

PUBLISHING;

EID: 84937540514     PISSN: 17511577     EISSN: 18755879     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.joi.2015.06.002     Document Type: Article

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