Alone or together: Examples from history research

Scientometrics

Volumn 91, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 527-537

  Must, Ülle ^a  

^a Archimedes Foundation   (Estonia)

Author keywords

Archaeology; Citation analysis; History; Humanities

Indexed keywords

EID: 84859422653     PISSN: 01389130     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11192-011-0596-2     Document Type: Article

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