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Raan, A.F.J. van; Leeuwen, T.N. van; Visser, M.S. (2011)

Non-English papers decrease rankings

Article / Letter to editor

In applying a set of standard
bibliometric indicators to rank
the scientific status of 500
universities worldwide for the
2010 Leiden Ranking, we have
discovered that the language of
publication has a dramatic and
largely underestimated effect on
citation-based measurements of
research performance.

All authors

Raan, A.F.J. van; Leeuwen, T.N. van; Visser, M.S.

Date

2011-01-05

Journal

Nature

Volume

469

DOI

doi:10.1038/469034a