Iranian women in science: A gender study of scientific productivity in an Islamic country

Aslib Proceedings: New Information Perspectives

Volumn 60, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 463-473

  Mozaffarian, Mehrnoush ^a   Jamali, Hamid R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b KHARAZMI UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Academic staff; Gender; Iran; Productivity rate; Research work; Women

Indexed keywords

LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS; TESTING;

ACADEMIC STAFF; BROKEN DOWN; CHI-SQUARE TESTING; DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH; GENDER; GENDER DIFFERENCES; INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATIONS; IRAN; JOURNAL ARTICLES; PRODUCTIVITY RATE; QUALITATIVE STUDIES; RESEARCH WORK; SCIENTIFIC PRODUCTIVITY; WOMEN; WOMEN IN SCIENCE;

PRODUCTIVITY;

EID: 52349106784     PISSN: 0001253X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00012530810908193     Document Type: Article

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