Partition-based Field Normalization: An approach to highly specialized publication records

Publication year: 2012 Source: Journal of Informetrics, Volume 6, Issue 1, January 2012, Pages 1-10 Nadine Rons Field normalized citation rates are well-established indicators for research performance from the broadest aggregation levels such as countries, down to institutes and research teams. When applied to still more specialized publication sets at the level of individual scientists, also a more accurate delimitation is required of the reference domain that provides the expectations to which a performance is compared.

Publication year: 2012 Source: Journal of Informetrics, Volume 6, Issue 1, January 2012, Pages 1-10 Nadine Rons Field normalized citation rates are well-established indicators for research performance from the broadest aggregation levels such as countries, down to institutes and research teams. When applied to still more specialized publication sets at the level of individual scientists, also a more accurate delimitation is required of the reference domain that provides the expectations to which a performance is compared.

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Partition-based Field Normalization: An approach to highly specialized publication records