Physical and economic bias in climate change research: A scientometric study of IPCC Third Assessment Report

Climatic Change

Volumn 108, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 1-22

  Bjurström, Andreas ^a   Polk, Merritt ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

KNOWLEDGE BASE; RESEARCH COMMUNITIES; SCIENTIFIC FIELDS; SCIENTOMETRICS; SOCIAL PROBLEMS;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; EARTH (PLANET); KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; RATING; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SPHERES;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; EARTH SCIENCE; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUE; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH; ERROR ANALYSIS; HUMAN ACTIVITY; INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGE; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEM; RESEARCH PROGRAM; SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 79751535854     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-011-0018-8     Document Type: Article

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