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Invisible work in standard bibliometric evaluation of computer science

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Most of a computer scientist's production can go uncounted if a standard bibliographic service is used.

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cover image Communications of the ACM
Communications of the ACM  Volume 54, Issue 5
May 2011
134 pages
ISSN:0001-0782
EISSN:1557-7317
DOI:10.1145/1941487
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