World shares of publications of the USA, EU-27, and China compared and predicted using the new Web of Science interface versus Scopus

Profesional de la Informacion

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 43-49

  Leydesdorff, Loet ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

China; Cross over; EU 27; Measurement; SCIE; Science citation index; Scopus; Thomson Reuters; USA; World share of publications

Indexed keywords

EID: 84858633937     PISSN: 13866710     EISSN: 16992407     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3145/epi.2012.ene.06     Document Type: Article

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