Does a country's scientific 'productivity' depend critically on the number of country journals indexed?

Scientometrics

Volumn 82, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 507-516

  Basu, Aparna ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHEMICAL LABORATORY   (India)

Author keywords

Bibliometrics; China; Country share; India; Journals; Publications; SCImago; Scopus; Web of Science

Indexed keywords

EID: 77952092876     PISSN: 01389130     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11192-010-0186-8     Document Type: Article

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