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Pseudo-metrics on bibliographic entities

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The purpose of this paper is to define a pseudo-metric on bibliographic entities to measure the distance in content between them. An example of this pseudo-metric is given in the case that the content of the bibliographic material is characterised by means of UDC-numbers.

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  1. University of Antwerp, P.O. Box 13, 2610, Antwerp, (Belgium)

    R. Philips

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Philips, R. Pseudo-metrics on bibliographic entities. Scientometrics 25, 193–199 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02016854

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