Empirical regularity in academic research productivity patterns in marketing

International Journal of Research in Marketing

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 248-257

  Talukdar, Debabrata ^a   Hariharan, Vijay Ganesh ^b   Boo, Chanil ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^b ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Author concentration; Bibliometric distributions; Cumulative advantage; Empirical regularity; Lotka's Law; Scientific productivity

Indexed keywords

EID: 80052582025     PISSN: 01678116     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijresmar.2011.03.003     Document Type: Article

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