Does scientific collaboration increase the impact of ecological articles?

BioScience

Volumn 55, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 438-443

  Leimu, Roosa ^a   Koricheva, Julia ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Citation rates; Coauthorship; Domestic collaboration; International collaboration; Multidisciplinarity

Indexed keywords

EID: 18744369669     PISSN: 00063568     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1641/0006-3568(2005)055[0438:DSCITI]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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