What is behind the curtain of the Leiden Ranking?

Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 66, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 1950-1953

  Mutz, Rüdiger ^a   Daniel, Hans Dieter ^a,b  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

ranking

Indexed keywords

SOCIAL SCIENCES COMPUTING;

BIBLIOMETRIC INDICATORS; CITATION IMPACT; RANKING; SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY STUDIES;

PUBLISHING;

EID: 84946036500     PISSN: 23301635     EISSN: 23301643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.23360     Document Type: Article

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