Factors and indices are one thing, deciding who is scholarly, why they are scholarly, and the relative value of their scholarship is something else entirely

Ethics in Science and Environmental Politics

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 1-3

  Browman, Howard I ^a   Stergiou, Konstantinos I ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF MARINE RESEARCH   (Norway)

^b ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Bibliometrics; Citation counts; h index; Inherent value of scholarship; Journal impact factor; Research assessment

Indexed keywords

EID: 44849141050     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16118014     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/esep00089     Document Type: Editorial

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