Benchmarking individual publication productivity in logistics

Transportation Journal

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 164-196

  Coleman, B Jay ^a   Bolumole, Yemisi A ^b   Frankel, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Authorship; Bibliometrics; Citation analysis; H index; Logistics scholars; Publication productivity

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC RESEARCH; BENCHMARKING; BIBLIOGRAPHY; LOGISTICS; PRODUCTIVITY;

EID: 84861389233     PISSN: 00411612     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5325/transportationj.51.2.0164     Document Type: Article

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