The elephant in the room: The problem of quantifying productivity in evaluative scientometrics

Journal of Informetrics

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 671-674

  Waltman, Ludo ^a   van Eck, Nees Jan ^a   Visser, Martijn ^a   Wouters, Paul ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

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EID: 84964228107     PISSN: 17511577     EISSN: 18755879     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.joi.2015.12.008     Document Type: Letter

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