Multiplicative versus fractional counting methods for co-authored publications. The case of the 500 universities in the Leiden Ranking

Journal of Informetrics

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 974-989

  Perianes Rodriguez, Antonio ^a   Ruiz Castillo, Javier ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD CARLOS III DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Citation impact; Co authorship; Counting methods

Indexed keywords

EDUCATION; PUBLISHING; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

CITATION DISTRIBUTION; CITATION IMPACT; CITATION SCORE; CO-AUTHORSHIPS; COUNTING METHODS; MULTIPLICATIVE APPROACH; SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS; WEB OF SCIENCE;

INFORMATION ANALYSIS;

EID: 84947420553     PISSN: 17511577     EISSN: 18755879     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.joi.2015.10.002     Document Type: Article

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