Assessing the research activity of Canadian psychology departments with graduate programmes

Canadian Psychology

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 164-176

  Carleton, R Nicholas ^a   Peluso, Daniel L ^a   Asmundson, Gordon J G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGINA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Canadian graduate psychology research; Citations; H factor; Publications; University rankings

Indexed keywords

EID: 77957007896     PISSN: 07085591     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0020193     Document Type: Article

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