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Applying the CSS method to bibliometric indicators used in (university) rankings

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This Letter to the Editor proposes to use the CSS method for classifying ranking results (e.g. from university rankings) into meaningful groups.

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  1. Division for Science and Innovation Studies, Administrative Headquarters of the Max Planck Society, Hofgartenstr. 8, 80539, Munich, Germany

    Lutz Bornmann

  2. ECOOM and Department of MSI, KU Leuven, Naamsestraat 61, 3000, Louvain, Belgium

    Wolfgang Glänzel

  3. Department of Science Policy and Scientometrics, Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Arany János u. 1, Budapest, 1051, Hungary

    Wolfgang Glänzel

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Bornmann, L., Glänzel, W. Applying the CSS method to bibliometric indicators used in (university) rankings. Scientometrics 110, 1077–1079 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-016-2198-5

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