Evaluation of ninety-three major Greek university departments using Google Scholar

Quality in Higher Education

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 111-137

  Altanopoulou, Panagiota ^a   Dontsidou, Maria ^a   Tselios, Nikolaos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

evaluation; Google Scholar; Greek university departments; h index; higher education; quality; research evaluation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84859578943     PISSN: 13538322     EISSN: 14701081     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13538322.2012.670918     Document Type: Article

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