The evaluation of scholarly books as a research output. Current developments in Europe

Proceedings of ISSI 2015 Istanbul: 15th International Society of Scientometrics and Informetrics Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 469-476

  Giménez Toledo, Elea ^a   Mañana Rodríguez, Jorge ^a   Engels, Tim ^b,c   Ingwersen, Peter ^d   Pölönen, Janne ^e   Sivertsen, Gunnar ^f   Verleysen, Frederik ^b   Zuccala, Alesia ^d  

^a INSTITUTO DE HISTORIA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^c ANTWERP MARITIME ACADEMY   (Belgium)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^e Federation of Finnish Learned Societies   (Finland)

^f NORDIC INSTITUTE FOR STUDIES IN INNOVATION   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA HANDLING;

ASSESSMENT SYSTEM; EUROPEAN COUNTRIES; FLANDERS; RESEARCH FUNDING; RESEARCH OUTPUTS; SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATION; SCIENTIFIC OUTPUT; WEIGHTING PROCEDURE;

INFORMATION SCIENCE;

EID: 84978242677     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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