Counting Highly Cited Papers for University Research Assessment: Conceptual and Technical Issues
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Counting Highly Cited Papers for University Research Assessment: Conceptual and Technical Issues
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عنوان ژورنال: PLoS ONE
سال: 2012
ISSN: 1932-6203
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0047210