A longitudinal analysis of citation distribution breadth for Chinese scholars

Scientometrics

Volumn 85, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 755-765

  Yang, Siluo ^a   Ma, Feng ^b   Song, Yanhui ^b   Qiu, Junping ^b  

^a XIANGTAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Bibliometrics; China; Citations analysis; Citing behavior; Reform and opening up

Indexed keywords

EID: 77958493405     PISSN: 01389130     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11192-010-0245-1     Document Type: Article

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