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ACRONYMS

A&HCI Arts & Humanities Citation Index
ABP article-based publishing
ABS Association of Business Schools
AC-IE Angewandte Chemie International Edition
AF audience factor
AIF average impact factor
AIS article influence score
ALM article level metrics
APC article processing charge
AR acceptance rate
ARWU Academic Ranking of World Universities
BCI Book Citation Index
BOAI Budapest Open Access Initiative
BRICK Brazil Russia India China Korea
BRICKS Brazil Russia India China Korea South Africa
CAB(I) originally, Commonwealth Agricultural Bureaux (International)
CERN originally, Conseil Europe ´en pour la Recherche Nucle ´aire
CPCI-S Conference Proceedings Citation Index Science
CPCI-SSH Conference Proceedings Citation Index Social Science & Humanities
CpP citations per publication
CRIS Current Research Information System
CRIStin Current Research Information System in Norway
CRL Center for Research libraries
CSS Characteristic scores and scales
CWTS Centrum voor Wetenschap en Technologie Studies 5 Centre for Science
and Technology Studies
DCP database citation potential (part of SNIP)
DEA Data Envelopment Analysis
DIF diachronous impact factor
DOAJ Directory of Open Access Journals
DOI digital object identifier
DORA Declaration on Research Assessment
EIC editor-in-chief
ESI Essential Science Indicators
ESCI Emerging Sources Citation Index
FTE full-time equivalent
GDP gross domestic product
GERD gross domestic expenditure on R&D
GIF global impact factor
GS Google Scholar
HEEACT Higher Education Evaluation & Accreditation Council of Taiwan
HTML HyperText Markup Language
I3 integrated impact indicator

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