An empirical look at the nature index

Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 68, Issue 3, 2017, Pages 653-659

  Bornmann, Lutz ^a   Haunschild, Robin ^b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR FESTKÖRPERFORSCHUNG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; IN-HOUSE DATABASE; MAX PLANCK; SIZE DEPENDENT; SIZE INDEPENDENTS; WEB OF SCIENCE;

DIGITAL LIBRARIES;

CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; LIBRARY; PUBLISHING; WEB OF SCIENCE;

EID: 84963567709     PISSN: 23301635     EISSN: 23301643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.23682     Document Type: Article

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