A comparative study of research performance in nanotechnology for China's inventor-authors and their non-inventing peers

Scientometrics

Volumn 84, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 331-343

  Guan, Jiancheng ^a   Wang, Gangbo ^b  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b BEIHANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Bibliometrics; Inventor authors; Nanotechnology; University patenting

Indexed keywords

EID: 77953693971     PISSN: 01389130     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11192-009-0140-9     Document Type: Article

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