The geography of scientific productivity: Scaling in US computer science

Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment

Volumn , Issue 10, 2006, Pages

  Carvalho, Rui ^a   Batty, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Critical phenomena of socio economic systems; New applications of statistical mechanics; Scaling in socioeconomic systems; Stochastic processes

Indexed keywords

EID: 42749100591     PISSN: 17425468     EISSN: 17425468     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1742-5468/2006/10/P10012     Document Type: Article

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