Methods to account for citation inflation in research evaluation
Quantitative research evaluation requires measures that are transparent, relatively simple, and free of disciplinary and temporal bias. We document and provide a solution to a hitherto unaddressed temporal bias – citation inflation – which arises from the basic fact that scientific publication is st...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Elsevier B.V.
2019
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