Publication year: 2011 Source: Journal of Informetrics, Volume 5, Issue 3, July 2011, Pages 360-368 Ping Zhou, Loet Leydesdorff In the case of the scientometric evaluation of multi- or interdisciplinary units one risks to compare apples with oranges: each paper has to be assessed in comparison to an appropriate reference set. We suggest that the set of citing papers can be considered as the relevant representation of the field of impact
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Fractional counting of citations in research evaluation: A cross- and interdisciplinary assessment of the Tsinghua University in Beijing