URAP-TR: a national ranking for Turkish universities based on academic performance

Scientometrics

Volumn 101, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 159-178

  Alaşehir, Oğuzhan ^a   Çakır, Murat Perit ^a   Acartürk, Cengiz ^a   Baykal, Nazife ^a   Akbulut, Ural ^a  

^a MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Academic performance; Higher education; National university ranking; Ranking indicators; Size dependency

Indexed keywords

EID: 84939878297     PISSN: 01389130     EISSN: 15882861     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11192-014-1333-4     Document Type: Article

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