Use of Scopus and Google Scholar to measure social sciences production in four major Spanish universities

Scientometrics

Volumn 82, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 333-349

  Etxebarria, Goio ^a   Gomez Uranga, Mikel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

Author keywords

Social Sciences production; Spanish universities; Visibility on international databases

Indexed keywords

EID: 77952877808     PISSN: 01389130     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11192-009-0043-9     Document Type: Article

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