Price revisited: On the growth of dissertations in eight research fields

Scientometrics

Volumn 88, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 371-383

  Andersen, Jens Peter ^a,b   Hammarfelt, Björn ^c  

^a AALBORG UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^b ROYAL SCHOOL OF LIBRARY AND INFORMATION SCIENCE   (Denmark)

^c UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Dissertations; Growth of science; History of science; Publication analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 79959666722     PISSN: 01389130     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11192-011-0408-8     Document Type: Article

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