Quality vs. quantity of publications in nanotechnology field from the People's Republic of China

Chinese Science Bulletin

Volumn 53, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1272-1280

  Kostoff, Ronald N ^a   Barth, Ryan B ^b   Lau, Clifford G Y ^c  

^a OFFICE OF NAVAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^b DDL OMNI Engineering LLC   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE FOR DEFENSE ANALYSES   (United States)

Author keywords

Bibliometrics; Citation analysis; Nanoscience; Nanotechnology; People's Republic of China; Publications; Scientometrics

Indexed keywords

EID: 42449112977     PISSN: 10016538     EISSN: 18619541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11434-008-0183-y     Document Type: Article

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