Benchmarking leading supply chain management and logistics strategy journals

International Journal of Logistics Management

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 403-419

  Ellinger, Alexander E ^a   Chapman, Karen ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   (United States)

Author keywords

Benchmarking; Citation analysis; Database management; Journal rankings; Journals; Logistics journals; Web of Science

Indexed keywords

EID: 81855199796     PISSN: 09574093     EISSN: 17586550     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/09574091111181390     Document Type: Article

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