The declining scientific impact of theses: Implications for electronic thesis and dissertation repositories and graduate studies

Scientometrics

Volumn 74, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 109-121

  Larivière, Vincent ^a,d   Zuccala, Alesia ^b   Archambault, Éric ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b Rathenau Institute KNAW   (Netherlands)

^c Science Metrix   (Canada)

^d MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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EID: 37549027257     PISSN: 01389130     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11192-008-0106-3     Document Type: Conference Paper

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