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Quality and impact considerations in bibliometrics: a reply to Ricker (in press)

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    Lutz Bornmann

  2. Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, Heisenbergstraße 1, 70569, Stuttgart, Germany

    Robin Haunschild

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Bornmann, L., Haunschild, R. Quality and impact considerations in bibliometrics: a reply to Ricker (in press). Scientometrics 111, 1857–1859 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-017-2373-3

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Keywords

  • Natural Language Processing
  • Open Scale
  • Citation Count
  • Impact Measurement
  • Citation Impact