How important is choice of the scaling factor in standardizing citations?

Giovanni Abramo, Tindaro Cicero, Ciriaco Andrea D'Angelo. How important is choice of the scaling factor in standardizing citations?. J. Informetrics, 6(4):645-654, 2012. [doi]

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  title = {How important is choice of the scaling factor in standardizing citations?},
  author = {Giovanni Abramo and Tindaro Cicero and Ciriaco Andrea D'Angelo},
  year = {2012},
  doi = {10.1016/j.joi.2012.07.002},
  url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.joi.2012.07.002},
  researchr = {https://researchr.org/publication/AbramoCD12d},
  cites = {0},
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  journal = {J. Informetrics},
  volume = {6},
  number = {4},
  pages = {645-654},
}