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Opinion paper: Thoughts and facts on bibliometric indicators

  • Wolfgang Glänzel
  • , Henk F. Moed

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Abstract

This paper aims at contributing to the on-going discussion about building and applying bibliometric indicators. It sheds light on their properties and requirements concerning six different aspects: deterministic versus probabilistic approach, application-related properties, the time dependence, normalization issues, size dependence and network indicators.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)381-394
Number of pages14
JournalScientometrics
Volume96
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - Jul 2013
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Indicators
  • Mathematical statistics
  • Normalization

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