Analysis of a number and type of publications that editors publish in their own journals: Case study of scholarly journals in Croatia

Scientometrics

Volumn 86, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 227-233

  Bošnjak, Lana ^a   Puljak, Livia ^a   Vukojević, Katarina ^a   Marušić, Ana ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SPLIT   (Croatia)

^b Agency for Science and Higher Education   (Croatia)

Author keywords

Conflict of interest; Guidelines for authors; Journal editors; Publishing; Transparency

Indexed keywords

EID: 78649979021     PISSN: 01389130     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11192-010-0207-7     Document Type: Article

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