Some critical notes on citation metrics and heterodox economics

Review of Radical Political Economics

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 330-337

  Kapeller, Jakob ^a  

^a JOHANNES KEPLER UNIVERSITY LINZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

citation metrics; heterodox economics; RRPE

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955865106     PISSN: 04866134     EISSN: 15528502     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0486613410377855     Document Type: Article

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