The study of "matthew effect" on science productions of Iranian Medical Universities on the basis of "power-law relationship" in a five year period in the Web of Science

Information Sciences and Technology

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 67-81

  Jalalzadeh Asrejadidi, Sara ^a   Biglu, Mohammad Hosein ^b   Rafi, Abolnaser ^b  

^a Information Science   (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TABRIZ   (Iran)

Author keywords

Citation; Matthew effect; Non liner relationship; Power law relationship; Scale independent indicator; Scientific production

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053980911     PISSN: 17355206     EISSN: 20085583     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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