The influence of author gender, national language and number of authors on citation rate in ecology

Open Ecology Journal

Volumn 2, Issue , 2009, Pages 25-28

  Borsuk, R M ^a   Budden, A E ^b   Leimu, R ^c   Aarssen, L W ^d   Lortie, C J ^a  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ECOLOGICAL ANALYSIS AND SYNTHESIS   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^d QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Citation rate; Ecology; Gender; Language; Publication bias

Indexed keywords

EID: 69549122785     PISSN: None     EISSN: 18742130     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/1874213000902010025     Document Type: Article

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