How journal rankings can suppress interdisciplinarity. The case of innovation studies and business and management

Proceedings of ISSI 2011 - 13th Conference of the International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics

Volumn 2, Issue , 2011, Pages 712-723

  Rafols, Ismael ^a   Leydesdorff, Loet ^b   O'Hare, Alice ^a   Nightingale, Paul ^a   Stirling, Andy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

BUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT; BUSINESS SCHOOLS; INNOVATION STUDIES; INTERDISCIPLINARITY; INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH; JOURNAL RANKINGS; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PERFORMANCE CHALLENGES;

EID: 85084960353     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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