The geography of distance education - bibliographic characteristics of a journal network

Distance Education

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 441-456

  Zawacki Richter, Olaf ^a   Anderson, Terry ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

^b ATHABASCA UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

citation analysis; distance education journals; social network analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84860825608     PISSN: 01587919     EISSN: 14750198     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01587919.2011.610287     Document Type: Review

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