A new approach to measure the scientific strengths of territories

Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 66, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 1167-1177

  Abramo, Giovanni ^a   D'Angelo, Ciriaco Andrea ^b   Di Costa, Flavia ^c  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^c SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

(research and analytic methods); bibliometrics; informetrics; measurement; quantitative research

Indexed keywords

MEASUREMENTS;

ANALYTIC METHOD; BIBLIOMETRICS; INFORMETRICS; NEW APPROACHES; PUBLIC RESEARCH; QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH; WEB OF SCIENCE;

INFORMATION SCIENCE;

EID: 84940482303     PISSN: 23301635     EISSN: 23301643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.23257     Document Type: Article

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