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- Title
Severe language effect in university rankings: particularly Germany and France are wronged in citation-based rankings.
- Authors
Raan, Anthony; Leeuwen, Thed; Visser, Martijn
- Abstract
We applied a set of standard bibliometric indicators to monitor the scientific state-of-arte of 500 universities worldwide and constructed a ranking on the basis of these indicators (Leiden Ranking ). We find a dramatic and hitherto largely underestimated language effect in the bibliometric, citation-based measurements of research performance when comparing the ranking based on all Web of Science (WoS) covered publications and on only English WoS covered publications, particularly for Germany and France.
- Subjects
GERMANY; FRANCE; BIBLIOMETRICS; LANGUAGE research; IMPACT factor (Citation analysis); UNIVERSITY rankings; UNIVERSITIES &; colleges
- Publication
Scientometrics, 2011, Vol 88, Issue 2, p495
- ISSN
0138-9130
- Publication type
Letter
- DOI
10.1007/s11192-011-0382-1