Dimensions and uncertainties of author citation rankings: Lessons learned from frequency-weighted in-text citation counting

Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 67, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 671-682

  Zhao, Dangzhi ^a   Strotmann, Andreas ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b ScienceXplore   (Germany)

Author keywords

authors; citation analysis; uncertainty

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION ANALYSIS;

AUTHORS; CITATION ANALYSIS; FREQUENCY WEIGHTED; FREQUENCY-WEIGHTING; LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCE; UNCERTAINTY; UNCERTAINTY PRINCIPLES; UPPER AND LOWER BOUNDS;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

CHEMICAL BINDING; CITATION ANALYSIS; CONSENSUS; HUMAN; INFORMATION SCIENCE; UNCERTAINTY;

EID: 84997795501     PISSN: 23301635     EISSN: 23301643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.23418     Document Type: Article

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